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Ralph Sharp Brown, Intellectual Property And The Public Interest--Introduction, Wendy J. Gordon
Ralph Sharp Brown, Intellectual Property And The Public Interest--Introduction, Wendy J. Gordon
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Ralph Sharp Brown crossed out the "Junior" that followed his name after his father died. In explanation of the hand-altered stationery, he said (if my recollection holds), "I'm the only one left now." Now, after Ralph's death, there may remain no Ralph Sharp Browns. But there are many law teachers who continue to wage the campaign that Ralph made his life work: to save an interdependent society from unnecessary and stagnating restraints on liberty. In the intellectual property area, Ralph sought to teach us that it can be both right and necessary to give individuals the liberty to "reap without …
Digital Technology And Copyright: A Threat Or A Promise - Introduction, Michael J. Meurer
Digital Technology And Copyright: A Threat Or A Promise - Introduction, Michael J. Meurer
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On November 14, 1998, Franklin Pierce Law Center (FPLC), in cooperation with the Kenneth J. Germeshausen Center for the Law of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the PTC Research Foundation, both of which are headquartered at FPLC, held its Seventh Biennial Intellectual Property System Major Problems Conference. While noteworthy for a broadening in scope over previous conferences - from "patent system major problems" to "intellectual property system major problems" - the seventh biennial conference continues a tradition of scholarship and discussion begun in 1987 by former FPLC professor Homer O. Blair.
The discussions in Professor Blair's inaugural major problems conference focused …