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Aals Speech, Wendy J. Gordon Sep 1992

Aals Speech, Wendy J. Gordon

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Marshall has also said I can speak as long as I want, so scream when you've had enough.


On Owning Information: Intellectual Property And The Restitutionary Impulse, Wendy J. Gordon Feb 1992

On Owning Information: Intellectual Property And The Restitutionary Impulse, Wendy J. Gordon

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Every day someone invests time, labor, or money in creating a valuable intangible. Someone collects information, creates an idea, designs a boat hull, writes a book, or comes up with a new way to market a product that someone else developed. Judicial treatment of these and other cognate occurrences has shifted dramatically in recent years.


Of Harms And Benefits: Torts, Restitution, And Intellectual Property, Wendy J. Gordon Jan 1992

Of Harms And Benefits: Torts, Restitution, And Intellectual Property, Wendy J. Gordon

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Copyright and patent take the form of ordinary property. As tangible property has physical edges, intellectual property statutes create boundaries by defining the subject matters within their zone of protection. As real property owners have rights to prevent strangers from entering their land, intellectual property statutes and case law grant owners rights to exclude strangers from using the protected work in specified ways. As tangible property can be bought and sold, bequeathed and inherited, so can copyrights and patents.