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11th Annual Conference On Recent Developments In Intellectual Property Law And Policy, Marc Greenberg, William T. Gallagher, Chester S. Chuang
11th Annual Conference On Recent Developments In Intellectual Property Law And Policy, Marc Greenberg, William T. Gallagher, Chester S. Chuang
Intellectual Property Law
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Trademark And Copyright Enforcement In The Shadow Of Ip Law, William T. Gallagher
Trademark And Copyright Enforcement In The Shadow Of Ip Law, William T. Gallagher
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In recent years, as Congress has created new intellectual property (IP) rights and courts have often interpreted those rights broadly, legal scholars have frequently decried the expanded scope of protection afforded IP owners in most substantive areas of IP law. According to this critique, the over-expansion of IP rights throughout the past two decades harms competition, chills free speech, and diminishes the public domain as increasingly broad areas of social life are brought within the scope of strong IP protection. While this over-expansion theory reflects an important-indeed, foundationalpolicy debate concerning the proper balance between IP owners' rights and the public's …