Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction Adam Mossoff
PART I PROPERTY THEORY AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
A. Descriptive and Normative Accounts of "Intellectual Property" as
Property
1. Lawrence C. Becker (1993), ‘Deserving to Own Intellectual
Property’
2. Frank H. Easterbrook (1990), ‘Intellectual Property is Still
Property’
3. Richard A. Epstein (2001), ‘Intellectual Property: Old
Boundaries and New Frontiers’
4. Wendy J. Gordon (1993), ‘A Property Right in Self-Expression:
Equality and Individualism in the Natural Law of Intellectual
Property’
5. Robert P. Merges (2008), ‘The Concept of Property in the Digital
Era’
6. Henry E. Smith (2007), ‘Intellectual Property as Property:
Delineating Entitlements in Information’
B. Copyright
7. Justin Hughes (2006), ‘Copyright and Incomplete
Historiographies: Of Piracy, Propertization, and Thomas
Jefferson’
8. Richard A. Epstein (2005), ‘Liberty Versus Property? Cracks in
the Foundations of Copyright Law’
9. Christopher M. Newman (2011), ‘Transformation in Property and
Copyright’
C. Patents
10. Adam Mossoff (2007), ‘Who Cares What Thomas Jefferson Thought
About Patents? Reevaluating the Patent “Privilege” in Historical
Context’
11. F. Scott Kieff (2001), ‘Property Rights and Property Rules for
Commercializing Inventions’
12. Edmund W. Kitch (1977), ‘The Nature and Function of the Patent
System’
D. Trademarks
13. Mark P. McKenna (2006-2007), ‘The Normative Foundations of
Trademark Law’
E. Trade Secrets
14. Robert G. Bone (1998), ‘A New Look at Trade Secret Law:
Doctrine in Search of Justification’
15. Eric R. Claeys (2011), ‘Private Law Theory and Corrective
Justice in Trade Secrecy’
PART II THE PROPERTY-BASED CRITIQUE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
16. Tom G. Palmer (1990), ‘Are Patents and Copyrights Morally
Justified? The Philosophy of Property Rights and Ideal Objects’
17. Tom W. Bell (2008), ‘Copyright as Intellectual Property
Privilege’
Edited by Adam Mossoff, Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law, Virginia, US
‘Mossoff has compiled a rich collection of the best law journal articles involving various aspects of the increasingly complex domain of intellectual property rights. In a digital age where words, art, photographs, videos, ad music are now "shared" at increasingly viral speeds, Mossoff's Intellectual Property and Property Rights provides communication professors and lecturers with valuable classroom teaching tools, supported by intriguing real-world cases, for helping their students understand what can fairly be used.’
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