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Taking The Protection-Access Tradeoff Seriously, Harvey S. Perlman
Taking The Protection-Access Tradeoff Seriously, Harvey S. Perlman
Vanderbilt Law Review
Law and economics scholarship has contributed much to our understanding of both the nature of intellectual property rights generally and the features of individual intellectual property regimes. Indeed it is hard to imagine a field other than antitrust law that is so explicitly governed by economic thinking. In authorizing the copyright and patent systems, Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution expressly incorporates a social welfare imperative as the basis for its grant of power.' Certainly economists and economically oriented legal academics have given the field the attention it is due.
I am far from being a sophisticated …