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Global Issues In Intellectual Property Law, Amy Landers, Michael Mireles, John Cross, Peter Yu
Global Issues In Intellectual Property Law, Amy Landers, Michael Mireles, John Cross, Peter Yu
Amy L. Landers
This book is designed to facilitate the introduction of international, transnational, and comparative law issues into a domestic Intellectual Property course. The book is very accessible for law students and their professors. The book can be assigned or recommended as optional reading to supplement a domestic-only course to advance the students' understanding of their own system.
The Anti-Economy Of Fashion: An Openwork Approach To Intellectual Property Protection, Amy L. Landers
The Anti-Economy Of Fashion: An Openwork Approach To Intellectual Property Protection, Amy L. Landers
Amy L. Landers
Fashion’s cultural connections provide the groundwork for a theory to resolve the critical questions of protection for works that draw strongly on exogenous inputs. This article proposes that narrow protection for fashion is both economically justified, theoretically sound, and beneficial to the field because it facilitates spillovers in a manner that allows others to create the endless variations that are the lifeblood of this vibrant industry. Such protection relies on a theory of openworks, which applies to designs that have a high level of input from outside of the creator’s realm of activity. In fashion, inspiration that derives from the …