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From Free Riders To Fair Followers: Global Competition Under The Trips Agreement, Jerome H. Reichman
From Free Riders To Fair Followers: Global Competition Under The Trips Agreement, Jerome H. Reichman
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Intellectual Property Policy Online: A Young Person’S Guide, James Boyle
Intellectual Property Policy Online: A Young Person’S Guide, James Boyle
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This is an edited version of a presentation to the "Intellectual Property Online" panel at the Harvard Conference on the Internet and Society, May 28-31, 1996. The panel was a reminder of both the importance of intellectual property and the dangers of legal insularity. Of approximately 400 panel attendees, 90% were not lawyers. Accordingly, the remarks that follow are an attempt to lay out the basics of intellectual property policy in a straighforward and non-technical manner. In other words, this is what non-lawyers should know (and what a number of government lawyers seem to have forgotten) about intellectual property policy …
Remembering Melville Nimmer: Some Cautionary Notes On Commercial Speech, William W. Van Alstyne
Remembering Melville Nimmer: Some Cautionary Notes On Commercial Speech, William W. Van Alstyne
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This examination concerns itself with two main questions: what qualifies as commercial speech and how much protection does commercial speech enjoy under the First Amendment when compared to other forms of speech. The trend of the Court indicates that commercial speech enjoys protections similar to political speech.