Author(s): Robert P. Merges Year: 2008 Abstract: Some commentators see the need for major changes in the legal and institutional framework surrounding the music industry. Some proposals call for revising […]
The Continuing Vitality of Music Performance Rights Organizations
Now and Then, Here and There: A Review Essay on Khan, the Democratization of Invention, and Blind, et al., Software Patents
Author(s): Robert P. Merges Year: 2007 Abstract: This Review Essay will appear in the Journal of Economic Literature. It covers two books: The Democratization of Innovation by Zorina Khan, and […]
Property Rights Theory and the Employed Inventor
Author(s): Robert P. Merges Year: 1997 Abstract: This paper explains and defends the legal rules governing employed inventors in the United States. In particular, it justifies the oft-criticized propensity of […]
The Strange Odyssey of Software Interfaces and Intellectual Property Law
Author(s): Pamela Samuelson Year: 2009 Abstract: This book chapter traces the strange odyssey of interfaces through various forms of intellectual property protection. Interface specifications were initially either public domain documents […]
What Effects Do Legal Rules Have on Service Innovation?
Author(s): Pamela Samuelson Year: 2009 Abstract: Intellectual property, contract, and tort laws likely have effects on levels of innovation in service sectors of the economy. Legal rules that are too […]
Five Challenges for Regulating the Global Information Society
Author(s): Pamela Samuelson Year: 2000 Abstract: The Internet is unquestionably having a profound effect on many aspects of the social, cultural, economic, and legal systems of planet Earth. Indeed, advances […]
Global Justice in Healthcare: Developing Drugs for the Developing World
Author(s): Talha Syed Year: 2006 Abstract: Each year, roughly nine million people in the developing world die from infectious diseases. The large proportion of those deaths could be prevented, either […]
The Copyright Principles Project: Directions for Reform
Author(s): Pamela Samuelson Year: 2011 Abstract: Copyright law is under considerable stress these days, particularly due to technological advances and the growth of global networks. In recognition of these stresses, […]
Ideas and Innovations: Which Should Be Subsidized?
Author(s): Suzanne Scotchmer Year: 2011 Abstract: The Bayh-Dole Act allows universities to commercialize their research. University laboratories therefore have two sources of funds: direct grants from the government and funds […]
Access to Knowledge: A Conceptual Genealogy
Author(s): Amy Kapczynski Year: 2011 Abstract: This is an introduction to an edited volume, Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property (Zone Press, 2010. It’s aim is to […]