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Intellectual Property Law

Boston University School of Law

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Expression

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Email To Bob Bone Re: Idea Expression Dichotomy, Wendy J. Gordon Jan 2008

Email To Bob Bone Re: Idea Expression Dichotomy, Wendy J. Gordon

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This is to recap our discussion, to make sure we're on the same page, and carry this a bit further. I'm very excited.


Toward A Jurisprudence Of Benefits: The Norms Of Copyright And The Problem Of Private Censorship, Wendy J. Gordon Jul 1990

Toward A Jurisprudence Of Benefits: The Norms Of Copyright And The Problem Of Private Censorship, Wendy J. Gordon

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For many years copyright was a backwater of the law. Perceived as an esoteric and narrow field beset by hypertechnical formalities, the discipline and its practitioners were largely isolated from scholarly and case law developments in other areas. There were exceptions, of course. Well before the explosion of intellectual property litigation in the last twenty years, persons such as Zechariah Chafee, Jr. and Judge Learned Hand brought a wealth of learning and broad perspective to copyright. But by and large copyright looked only to itself for guidance.