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Email To Kate On Article Changes, Wendy J. Gordon
Email To Kate On Article Changes, Wendy J. Gordon
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Here are further corrections to my article (Chapter 10).
Copyright, Wendy J. Gordon, Robert G. Bone
Copyright, Wendy J. Gordon, Robert G. Bone
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Copyright is the branch of Intellectual Property Law that governs works of expression such as books, paintings and songs, and the expressive aspects of computer programs. Intellectual products such as these have a partially public goods character: they are largely inexhaustible and nonexcludable. Intellectual Property Law responds to inexcludability by giving producers legal rights to exclude nonpayers from certain usages of their intellectual products. The goal is to provide incentives for new production at fairly low transaction costs. However, the copyright owner will charge a price above marginal cost and this, coupled with the inexhaustibility of most copyrighted products, creates …
Copyright And Parody: Touring The Certainties Of Property And Restitution, Wendy J. Gordon
Copyright And Parody: Touring The Certainties Of Property And Restitution, Wendy J. Gordon
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One of the supposed certainties of the common law is that persons need not pay for benefits they receive except when they have agreed in advance to make payment. The rule takes many forms. One of the most familiar is the doctrine that absent a contractual obligation, a person benefited by a volunteer ordinarily need not pay for what he has received. This rule supposedly both encourages economic efficiency and respects autonomy.
Classroom Lecture For Copyright Law, Wendy J. Gordon
Classroom Lecture For Copyright Law, Wendy J. Gordon
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The differences between direct, vicarious and contributory liability, Section 512 in related matters. Alright, now let's move on to the next question, which is criminal liability. You read some material on that. And the basic lessons that I want you to take from the material are the following. First, notice that federal copyright law does not impose criminal liability easily as ordinary laws of tangible property do. And I think that that's a good thing. Remember that guy in Les Miserables who's pursued for stealing a loaf of bread. Stealing in the sense of copying one song would not make …
Symposium: Patent Rights And Licensing, Michael S. Baram, Ashley Stevens, Thomas Meyers, Michael J. Meurer
Symposium: Patent Rights And Licensing, Michael S. Baram, Ashley Stevens, Thomas Meyers, Michael J. Meurer
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This panel will discuss intellectual property - the patent incentive, patentability issues, licensing, and litigation-related matters. It will be moderated by Dr. Ashley Stevens, the Director of the Office of Technology Transfer at Boston University. Ashley has multiple degrees, including a doctorate in physical chemistry from Oxford University. He has worked in the biotech industry for a number of years, mostly with startup companies and academic research organizations such as the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, where he was also Director of Technology Transfer. Ashley was instrumental in the startup and operations of firms such as Biotechnica International, and started his …
The Constitutionality Of Copyright Term Extension: How Long Is Too Long?, Wendy J. Gordon, Jane C. Ginsburg, Arthur R. Miller, William F. Patry
The Constitutionality Of Copyright Term Extension: How Long Is Too Long?, Wendy J. Gordon, Jane C. Ginsburg, Arthur R. Miller, William F. Patry
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I am Professor William Patry of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. I will be the moderator of this star-studded debate on the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
Fine-Tuning Tasini: Privileges Of Electronic Distribution And Reproduction, Wendy J. Gordon
Fine-Tuning Tasini: Privileges Of Electronic Distribution And Reproduction, Wendy J. Gordon
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The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is arguably the soundest copyright court in the nation. In Tasini v. New York Times, it handled a challenge brought by a group of freelance writers against publishers and database proprietors. The controversy, now pending in the United States Supreme Court, has wide importance because it will determine what entitlements attach to a publisher who purchases a privilege to include a freelancer's story in the publisher's magazine or newspaper. Essentially, the issue is whether a publisher, who has not purchased the story's copyright and has not obtained an explicit …
Toward A Doctrine Of Fair Use In Patent Law, Maureen A. O'Rourke
Toward A Doctrine Of Fair Use In Patent Law, Maureen A. O'Rourke
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The intellectual property laws are becoming increasingly stressed as their largely time-worn doctrines grapple with problems posed by new technology. In this Article, Dean O'Rourke argues that this pressure has become particularly acute in patent law where policymakers have expanded protection without concomitantly evaluating the impact of that move on follow-on innovation. The traditional assumption that patentees will efficiently license their inventions is breaking down as market failures are becoming endemic. Dean O'Rourke argues that to ensure that patent law achieves its constitutional goals, it shuld, like copyright law, use a fair use defense to address problems of market failure. …