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2000 Cardozo Life (Summer), Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law
2000 Cardozo Life (Summer), Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law
Cardozo Life Magazine
Table of Contents:
Around Campus, page 3
Faculty Briefs, page 16
An Interview with Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, page 21
Did Elgin Cheat at Marbles?, page 25
Dream Field: Intellectual Property and New Media, page 31
Gift Planning: A Solution for Your Clients, page 36
Alumni News & Notes, page 38
Casting Light On Cultural Property, John J. Costonis
Casting Light On Cultural Property, John J. Costonis
Michigan Law Review
Theorists of private property invite comparison to theorists of light. For centuries, the latter have debated whether light is best understood as a wave or as a photon. The rivalry has been intense because each hypothesis explains some characteristics of light very well, but others very poorly. Wave theory outstrips photon theory in explaining such phenomena as light's frequencies and diffraction patterns. But photon theory, which reduces light to a succession of particles, more effectively explains such subatomic phenomena as changes in an atom's orbital shell produced by the interaction of photons and electrons. Property theorists too can be viewed …
Who "Owns" A Cultural Treasure?, Jason Y. Hall
Who "Owns" A Cultural Treasure?, Jason Y. Hall
Michigan Law Review
Because of the thoughtfulness of its arguments, the range and depth of its presentation of specific cases, and the fairness with which it reveals, thinks through, and allows some validity to opposing points of view, Playing Darts with a Rembrandt is a valuable contribution to understanding which parties have, and should have, rights in key objects that comprise our collective heritage. That I am not persuaded by some of the specific arguments in the book in no way reduces my admiration for what it accomplishes.
Copyright, Wendy J. Gordon, Robert G. Bone
Copyright, Wendy J. Gordon, Robert G. Bone
Faculty Scholarship
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 …
Square Pegs And Round Holes: Why Native American Economic And Cultural Policies And United States Intellectual Property Law Don't Fit, David B. Jordan
Square Pegs And Round Holes: Why Native American Economic And Cultural Policies And United States Intellectual Property Law Don't Fit, David B. Jordan
American Indian Law Review
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