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An Idea Whose Time Has Come – But Where Will It Go, Jane C. Ginsburg
An Idea Whose Time Has Come – But Where Will It Go, Jane C. Ginsburg
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This Reply picks up where Professor Miller's bold proposal leaves off: with the private international law and international copyright implications of state common law protection for idea-submitters. We will first address the compatibility of the proposal with international copyright norms disqualifying ideas from copyright protection. We will then turn to the consequences of the proposal for a federal system. Professor Miller's article thoroughly examines one aspect of the federalism problem, that of federal copyright policy preemption of statebased idea protection. But in advocating a regime constricted to the fifty separate states, not all of whose courts choose to secure idea …