Author(s): Peter S. Menell Year: 2005 Abstract: This article is based on an amicus brief filed in METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER STUDIOS INC., et al., v. GROKSTER, LTD., a case before the U.S. […]
Indirect Copyright Liability: A Re-examination of Sony’s Staple Article of Commerce Doctrine
Risk Taking and Gender in Hierarchies
Author(s): Suzanne Scotchmer Year: 2010 Abstract: In a labor market hierarchy, promotions are affected by the noisiness of information about the candidates. I study the hypothesis that males are more […]
Should Economics Play a Role in Copyright Law and Policy?
Author(s): Pamela Samuelson Year: 2005 Abstract: Given the utilitarian rationale for copyright and the economic incentives this law aims to create for investment in intellectual labor, it is somewhat surprising […]
The Trouble with Trolls: Innovation, Rent-Seeking and Patent Law Reform
Author(s): Robert P. Merges Year: 2009 Abstract: This Article analyzes the secondary market for patent rights. It defines a patent troll as a participant in this market that does not […]
Questioning Copyright in Standards
Author(s): Pamela Samuelson Year: 2006 Abstract: The rise of the information economy has caused copyright law to become a new actor in the intellectual property rights and standards debate because […]
The Generativity of Sony V. Universal: The Intellectual Legacy of Justice Stevens
Author(s): Pamela Samuelson Year: 2006 Abstract: Justice John Paul Stevens is best known in the intellectual property field for his decision for the Court in Sony Corp. of America v. […]
Updating Fair Use for Innovators and Creators in the Digital Age: Two Targeted Reforms
Author(s): Jennifer Urban Year: 2010 Abstract: In Parts I, II, and III of this first installment of our Report series, we discuss the critical role fair use plays in copyright’s […]
Challenges in Mapping the Public Domain
Author(s): Pamela Samuelson Year: 2005 Abstract: This essay considers positive, normative and political reasons for creating a map of the public domain and contiguous terrains. For far too many years, […]
Intellectual Property
Author(s): Year: 2005 Abstract: This chapter of the forthcoming Handbook of Law and Economics (A.M. Polinsky & S. Shavell (eds.)) provides a comprehensive survey of the burgeoning literature on the […]
Governance of Intellectual Resources and Disintegration of Intellectual Property in the Digital Age
Author(s): Peter S. Menell Year: 2010 Abstract: The Supreme Court’s decision in eBay v. MercExchange brought into focus whether intellectual property policy should follow reflexively in the wake of tangible […]