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Full-Text Articles in Intellectual Property Law
Copyright For A Social Species, Robert E. Suggs
Copyright For A Social Species, Robert E. Suggs
Robert E. Suggs
Arguments about the proper scope of copyright protection focus on the economic consequences of varying degrees of protection. Most analysts view copyright as an economic phenomenon, and the size and health of our copyright industries measure the success of copyright policies. The constitutional text granting Congress the copyright power and the nature of special interest lobbying naturally create this economic focus; but this is a serious mistake. An exclusively economic focus makes no more sense than measuring the nutritional merits of our food supply from the size and profitability of the fast food industry. The expressive culture that copyright protects …
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement: An Updated Analysis, Kimberlee G. Weatherall
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement: An Updated Analysis, Kimberlee G. Weatherall
Kimberlee G Weatherall
This paper provides an updated analysis of the issues posed by negotiations for the ACTA, as at November 2009.
The Google Book Search Settlement And The View From The Public Interest World, Laura Quilter
The Google Book Search Settlement And The View From The Public Interest World, Laura Quilter
Laura Quilter
No abstract provided.
Waardering Van Intellectuele Eigensomsrechten, Severin De Wit
Waardering Van Intellectuele Eigensomsrechten, Severin De Wit
Severin de Wit
Waardering van Intellectuele eigendomsrechten is een nog onontgonnen terrein. Bestaande waarderingstechnieken zijn in veel gevallen ontoereikend voor een bruikbare waardering. Omstandigheden die voor een waardering van belang kunnen zijn.
Intellectual Property Protection Or Protectionism? Declaratory Judgment Use By Patent Owners Against Prospective Infringers, Lawrence M. Sung
Intellectual Property Protection Or Protectionism? Declaratory Judgment Use By Patent Owners Against Prospective Infringers, Lawrence M. Sung
Lawrence M. Sung
No abstract provided.
The Google Book Search Settlement: Ends, Means, And The Future Of Books, James Grimmelmann
The Google Book Search Settlement: Ends, Means, And The Future Of Books, James Grimmelmann
James Grimmelmann
For the past four years, Google has been systematically making digital copies of books in the collections of many major university libraries. It made the digital copies searchable through its web site--you couldn't read the books, but you could at least find out where the phrase you're looking for appears within them. This outraged copyright owners, who filed a class action lawsuit to make Google stop. Then, last fall, the parties to this large class action announced an even larger settlement: one that would give Google a license not only to scan books, but also to sell them.
The settlement …
Looking For Fair Use In The Dmca's Safety Dance, Ira Nathenson
Looking For Fair Use In The Dmca's Safety Dance, Ira Nathenson
Ira Steven Nathenson
Like a ballet, the notice-and-take-down provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") provide complex procedures to obtain take-downs of online infringement. Copyright owners send notices of infringement to service providers, who in turn remove claimed infringement in exchange for a statutory safe harbor from copyright liability. But like a dance meant for two, the DMCA is less effective in protecting the "third wheel," the users of internet services. Even Senator John McCain - who in 1998 voted for the DMCA - wrote in exasperation to YouTube after some of his presidential campaign videos were removed due to take-downs. McCain …
Rethinking Anticircumvention's Interoperability Policy, Aaron K. Perzanowski
Rethinking Anticircumvention's Interoperability Policy, Aaron K. Perzanowski
Aaron K. Perzanowski
Interoperability is widely touted for its ability to spur incremental innovation, increase competition and consumer choice, and decrease barriers to accessibility. In light of these attributes, intellectual property law generally permits follow-on innovators to create products that interoperate with existing systems, even without permission. The anticircumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) represent a troubling departure from this policy, resulting in patent-like rights to exclude technologies that interoperate with protected platforms. Although the DMCA contains internal safeguards to preserve interoperability, judicial misinterpretation and a narrow textual focus on software-to-software interoperability render those safeguards largely ineffective. Subjecting restrictions on …
The Public Domain In Intellectual Property: Beyond The Metaphor Of A Domain, Severine Dusollier
The Public Domain In Intellectual Property: Beyond The Metaphor Of A Domain, Severine Dusollier
Severine Dusollier
No abstract provided.
Live Performance, Copyright, And The Future Of The Music Business, Mark F. Schultz
Live Performance, Copyright, And The Future Of The Music Business, Mark F. Schultz
Mark F Schultz
This article considers whether the emergence of business models based on free digital delivery of music and other content have rendered copyright protection less necessary or justifiable. Falling production and distribution costs have led many scholars and popular commentators to conclude that creators can and should embrace free distribution models for copyrighted works. In particular, many contend that the recording industry can survive and prosper by producing and freely distributing recordings as a form of advertising for the concert business. Some have further concluded that copyright law may need to change to reflect this new reality.
This article assesses such …
Works Of Artistic Craftsmanship In The High Court Of Australia: The Exception As Paradigm Copyright Work, Justine Pila
Works Of Artistic Craftsmanship In The High Court Of Australia: The Exception As Paradigm Copyright Work, Justine Pila
Justine Pila
In Burge v Swarbrick, the High Court of Australia delivered an important decision on the most elusive of works protected by copyright: the work of artistic craftsmanship (WAC). Drawing on the history and reasons for that protection, and adopting the analysis of Lord Simon in Hensher, the Court affirmed the orthodox view that such works have 'special status' in law on account of their 'real artistic quality'. In its judgment, whether a work has that quality depends on whether it is a work of craftsmanship the artistic form of expression of which is sufficiently 'unconstrained by functional considerations'. In this …
Authorship And E-Science: Balancing Epistemological Trust And Skepticism In The Digital Environment, Justine Pila
Authorship And E-Science: Balancing Epistemological Trust And Skepticism In The Digital Environment, Justine Pila
Justine Pila
In this article I consider the role of authorship in balancing epistemological trust and skepticism in e-science. Drawing on studies of the diagnostic practices of doctors in British breast care units and the gate-keeping practices of a Californian publisher of (professional and amateur) horticultural works, I suggest that conventions of authorial designation have an important role to play in nurturing the skepticism essential for scientific rigor within the framework of epistemological trust that pragmatism and morality require. In so doing I question the assumption of contemporary scholars that scientific works are determinate in fact, while nonetheless supporting the idea of …
Internet Killed The Copyright Law: Perfect 10 V. Google And The Devastating Impact On The Exclusiive Right To Display, Deborah B. Morse
Internet Killed The Copyright Law: Perfect 10 V. Google And The Devastating Impact On The Exclusiive Right To Display, Deborah B. Morse
Deborah Brightman Morse
Never has the dissonance between copyright and innovation been so extreme. The Internet provides enormous economic growth due to the strength of e-commerce, and affords an avenue for creativity and the wide dissemination of information. Nevertheless, the Internet has become a plague on copyright law. The advent of the digital medium has made the unlawful reproduction, distribution, and display of copyrighted works essentially effortless. The law has been unable to keep pace with the rapid advance of technology. For the past decade, Congress has been actively attempting to draft comprehensible legislation in an effort to afford copyright owners more protection …
One Size Does Not Fit All: A Framework For Tailoring Intellectual Property Rights, Michael W. Carroll
One Size Does Not Fit All: A Framework For Tailoring Intellectual Property Rights, Michael W. Carroll
Michael W. Carroll
The United States and its trading partners have adopted cultural and innovation policies under which the government grants one-size-fits-all patents and copyrights to inventors and authors. On a global basis, the reasons for doing so vary, but in the United States granting intellectual property rights has been justified as the principal means of promoting innovation and cultural progress. Until recently, however, few have questioned the wisdom of using such blunt policy instruments to promote progress in a wide range of industries in which the economics of innovation varies considerably.
Provisionally accepting the assumptions of the traditional economic case for intellectual …