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Letter To Professor Bruce Ackerman, Wendy J. Gordon
Letter To Professor Bruce Ackerman, Wendy J. Gordon
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As I said in my last note, your suggestions for the "Copyright and Copy-privilege" paper have proven extremely valuable. (The title is the least of it.) The reorganization you suggested has allowed the paper to blossom, and I'm extremely pleased with the results.
Note On The Four Faces Of The "Sharing Benefits" Issue - 1985, Wendy J. Gordon
Note On The Four Faces Of The "Sharing Benefits" Issue - 1985, Wendy J. Gordon
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Any overall theory must first be capable of describing what it seeks to theorize about. This article will now do that. In giving a taxonomy, the article may be making its greatest contribution. Lockean theory will hardly be the last word in i/p unification theory. But I will have at least set the terms for debate so we can finally speak clearly to each other, articulate the issues, see their implications.
Draft Of Desert Theory - 1985, Wendy J. Gordon
Draft Of Desert Theory - 1985, Wendy J. Gordon
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The first condition of Lockean theory is that property applies only to labor which appropriates something out of the common. Similarly, possession theory in American law applies only to appropriations of things which are unclaimed. While an intellectual product might seem to be drawn out of the ether, it can in fact be a difficult question whether its producers have drawn on more than commonly-owned resources.
Note On The Three Faces Of The "Sharing Benefits" Issue - 1985, Wendy J. Gordon
Note On The Three Faces Of The "Sharing Benefits" Issue - 1985, Wendy J. Gordon
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The legal treatment of the sharing-benefits issue runs along the following Hohfeldian continuum.
Draft Of Fair Use As Market Failure: A Structural And Economic Analysis Of The Betamax Case And Its Predecessors - 1982, Wendy J. Gordon
Draft Of Fair Use As Market Failure: A Structural And Economic Analysis Of The Betamax Case And Its Predecessors - 1982, Wendy J. Gordon
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In the recent and much publicized Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Sony Corp. of America (Betamax) case, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that persons who make videotapes of copyrighted television programs in the privacy of their homes should be considered to be copyright infringers. Basic to the court's reasoning was a misunderstanding of the "fair use" doctrine. Called "the most troublesome [doctrine] in the whole law of copyright," "fair use" renders noninfringing certain uses of copyrighted material that might technically violate the statute, but which do not violate the statute's basic purposes.
Abstract Of Gift Failure Versus Market Failure - 1982, Wendy J. Gordon
Abstract Of Gift Failure Versus Market Failure - 1982, Wendy J. Gordon
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Gifts and gift exchanges can serve a combination of economic, personal, social, and humanitarian ends. This article explores how intellectual products are unusually capable of serving these ends through gift relations, and suggests ways in which the law can assist in this process.
Notes Re Betamax - 1982, Wendy J. Gordon
Notes Re Betamax - 1982, Wendy J. Gordon
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There's a lot of misunderstanding of by BX article. Some simplifying things: There are three types of "market failure" in copyright. The first inheres in the nonexhaustibil ity of the good; barring a right to post-dissemination control against copying, goods may be underproduced because potential users will refuse to pay for access, figuring they can get access to a friend's copy later for free or at lower cost than the creator would charoe. Thus. relying only o~ the physical control which lets i creato~ charge for the "first look", will (except where the look wont' make copying possible- the trade …
Fair Use As Market Failure: A Structural And Economic Analysis Of The Betamax Case And Its Predecessors, Wendy J. Gordon
Fair Use As Market Failure: A Structural And Economic Analysis Of The Betamax Case And Its Predecessors, Wendy J. Gordon
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In the recent and much publicized Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Sony Corp. of America (Betamax) case, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that persons who make videotapes of copyrighted television programs in the privacy of their homes should be considered to be copyright infringers. Basic to the court's reasoning was a misunderstanding of the "fair use" doctrine. Called "the most troublesome [doctrine] in the whole law of copyright," "fair use" renders noninfringing certain uses of copyrighted material that might technically violate the statute, but which do not violate the statute's basic purposes.
Notes On Preemption And Misc - 1981, Wendy J. Gordon
Notes On Preemption And Misc - 1981, Wendy J. Gordon
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As one of my students indirectly commented (the Herzog midterm?), section 301 PURPORTS to be exclusive. "Nothing in this title shall annul state rights etc." One student, Chris Binnig, indirectly suggested a way out of the exclusivity problem, other than the common sense of Abrams, namely that 301 talks about the general scope of copyright- something which may require some policy inquiry.
Notes On Misc Re Contract - 1981, Wendy J. Gordon
Notes On Misc Re Contract - 1981, Wendy J. Gordon
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Once there is a patent, voluntarily-accepted user restrictions may not be enforceable. Or, at least, an attempt on the patentee's part to condition access of certain types on obtaining such restrictions, may be impossible. See 30 BNA PTCJ 104 (5/30/85)(Restrictions voided on availability of deposited yeast strains.) Filed under Yeast case.
Lecture Draft On Sensory Recall Device - 1980, Wendy J. Gordon
Lecture Draft On Sensory Recall Device - 1980, Wendy J. Gordon
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Perception is a bodily function. The brain “sees” according to the orders which the optic nerve relays from its position at the back of the eye. Similarly, it is the brain which also "hears." As we know from our dreaming and our remembering, neither eye nor ear is indispensable to having the sensations of seeing and hearing.