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Full-Text Articles in Legal History
The Public Domain, Jessica D. Litman
The Public Domain, Jessica D. Litman
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This article examines the public domain by looking at the gulf between what authors really do and the way the law perceives them. Part I outlines the basics of copyright as a species of property and introduces the public domain's place within the copyright scheme. Copyright grants authors" ' rights modeled on real property in order to encourage authorship by providing authors with markets in which they can seek compensation for their creations. Because parcels of authorship are intangible, however, the law faces *problems in determining the ownership and boundaries of its property grants. In particular, the concept of "originality," …
Elimination Of Process: Will The Biotechnology Patent Protection Act Revive Process Patents, 24 J. Marshall L. Rev. 263 (1990), Kerin Kelly
UIC Law Review
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Book Review. Inventing The Industrial Revolution: The English Patent System, 1660-1800, Marshall A. Leaffer
Book Review. Inventing The Industrial Revolution: The English Patent System, 1660-1800, Marshall A. Leaffer
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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