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Lucas S. Osborn

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Intellectual Property Channeling For Digital Works, Lucas S. Osborn Dec 2017

Intellectual Property Channeling For Digital Works, Lucas S. Osborn

Lucas S. Osborn

Market economies are based on free competition, which can include copying. Yet intellectual property protection in the United States prohibits copying in certain circumstances to incentivize innovation and creativity. New breeds of digital works are challenging our historical application of intellectual property law. These include certain categories of software programs as well as digital manufacturing files. These new works look deceptively like works from a previous era and thus, courts might languorously treat them as they have older works. This would be a mistake. This Article analyzes these works in terms of existing intellectual property doctrine and constructs a normative …

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Reevaluating Intellectual Property Law In A 3d Printing Era., Lucas S. Osborn Nov 2017

Reevaluating Intellectual Property Law In A 3d Printing Era., Lucas S. Osborn

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Reevaluating Intellectual Property Law In A 3d Printing Era, Lucas S. Osborn Dec 2016

Reevaluating Intellectual Property Law In A 3d Printing Era, Lucas S. Osborn

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The Limits Of Creativity In Copyright: Digital Manufacturing Files And Lockout Codes, Lucas S. Osborn Dec 2016

The Limits Of Creativity In Copyright: Digital Manufacturing Files And Lockout Codes, Lucas S. Osborn

Lucas S. Osborn

As the distinction between the digital and physical worlds continues to diminish, the necessity to reevaluate the bargain struck by the copyright regime increases in importance. Digitization brings increasingly more aspects of our world into the potential ambit of the copyright system. To understand whether and how the copyright system should apply in an increasingly digital world, it is first necessary to understand doctrinally how current copyright laws apply to new digital works. This Article corrects several errors that have appeared in the literature analyzing copyright law's treatment of 3D printing and other digital manufacturing files. This Article incorporates an …

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Doctrinal Quandaries With 3d Printing And Intellectual Property, Lucas S. Osborn Jul 2016

Doctrinal Quandaries With 3d Printing And Intellectual Property, Lucas S. Osborn

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The Case For Weaker Patents, Lucas Osborn Mar 2015

The Case For Weaker Patents, Lucas Osborn

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The Case For Weaker Patents In The Digital Age Of Innovation, Lucas Osborn Feb 2015

The Case For Weaker Patents In The Digital Age Of Innovation, Lucas Osborn

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Digital Patent Infringement, Lucas Osborn Aug 2014

Digital Patent Infringement, Lucas Osborn

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Digital Patent Infringement, Lucas Osborn Apr 2014

Digital Patent Infringement, Lucas Osborn

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Open Source Hardware And The New Age Of Innovation, Lucas Osborn Feb 2014

Open Source Hardware And The New Age Of Innovation, Lucas Osborn

Lucas S. Osborn

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The Leaky Common Law: An "Offer To Sell" As A Policy Tool In Patent Law And Beyond, Lucas S. Osborn Nov 2013

The Leaky Common Law: An "Offer To Sell" As A Policy Tool In Patent Law And Beyond, Lucas S. Osborn

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Pirates, Phds, And Preservation: 3d Printing And Access To Creative Expression, Lucas Osborn Oct 2013

Pirates, Phds, And Preservation: 3d Printing And Access To Creative Expression, Lucas Osborn

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Three Dimensional Printing: Regulating The Converging Worlds Of Bits And Atoms, Lucas Osborn Aug 2013

Three Dimensional Printing: Regulating The Converging Worlds Of Bits And Atoms, Lucas Osborn

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The Third Industrial Revolution: How 3d Printing Will Disrupt Intellectual Property Laws, Lucas Osborn May 2013

The Third Industrial Revolution: How 3d Printing Will Disrupt Intellectual Property Laws, Lucas Osborn

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The Third Industrial Revolution: How 3d Printing Will Disrupt Intellectual Property Laws, Lucas Osborn Apr 2013

The Third Industrial Revolution: How 3d Printing Will Disrupt Intellectual Property Laws, Lucas Osborn

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