Expanding the Boundaries of Intellectual Property: Innovation Policy for the Knowledge Society

by Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss (Editor), Diane Leenheer Zimmerman (Editor), Harry First (Editor)

Overview

Many countries have already agreed to accept minimum standards of intellectual property protection and enforcement. But how much control should innovators exercise over their creative works or inventions? This new collection of essays analyzes and develops this issue, which has assumed considerable importance in our new knowledge-based economy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198298571
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/24/2001
Pages:	492
Product dimensions:	9.21(w) x 6.14(h) x 1.06(d)

About the Author

Professor Dreyfuss is currently the director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy, which sponsors interdisciplinary research on questions concerning the allocation of global resources to creative enterprises. Her research and teaching interests include intellectual property, privacy, the relationship between science and law, and civil procedure.

Diane Leenheer Zimmerman is Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. She writes about first amendment, women's rights and intellectual property issues. She lectures frequently in the United States and abroad on copyright, innovation policy and theory, libel, privacy, commercial speech, the regulation of pornography, and other issues. Harry First joined the faculty of New York University School of Law in 1976, where he currently teaches. Professor First is currently on leave from his position at NYU, serving as Chief of the Antitrust Bureau in the Office of the Attorney General of the State of New York.

Table of Contents

PART I: EXPANDING THE PRIVATE DOMAIN1. The Innovation Lottery, F.M. Scherer2. Of Green Tulips and Legal Kudzu: Repackaging Rights in Subpatentable Innovation, Jerome H. Reichman3. U.S. Initiatives to Protect Works of Low Authorship, Jane C. GinsburgPART II: THE GROWTH OF PRIVATE ORDERING REGIMES4. Setting Compatibility Standards: Cooperation or Collusion?, Carl Shapiro5. Self-Help in the Digital Jungle, Kenneth W. Dam6. Institutions for Intellectual Property Transactions: The Case of Patent Pools, Robert P. Merges7. A Plan for the Future of Music Performance Rights Organizations in the Digital Age, Bennett M. LincoffPART III: THE CLAIMS OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN8. A Public-Regarding Approach to Contracting Over Copyrights, Niva Elkin-Koren9. Bargaining over the Transfer of Proprietary Research Tools: Is this Market Failing or Emerging?, Rebecca S. Eisenberg10. Networks of Learning in Biotechnology: Opportunities and Constraints Associated with Relational Contracting in a Knowledge-Intensive Field, Walter W. Powell11. A Political Economy of the Public Domain: Markets in Information Goods vs. the Marketplace of Ideas, Yochai BenklerPART IV: IMPLEMENTING INNOVATION POLICY FOR THE INFORMATION AGE12. Balancing Proprietary and Public Domain Interests: Inside or Outside of Proprietary Rights?, Thomas Dreier13. Competition to Innovate: Strategies for Proper Antitrust Assessments, Susan DeSanti (with William Cohen, Nancy Dickinson, and Michael Fanelli)14. Copyright and Freedom of Expression in Europe, Bernt Hugenholtz15. Intellectual Property, Access to Information and Antitrust: Harmony, Disharmony and International Harmonization, Hanns UllrichPART V: VIEWS FROM THE BENCH16. Who Decides the Extent of Rights in Intellectual Property?, Frank H. Easterbrook17. Expanding the Bounds of Intellectual Property, Sir Robin Jacob18. Views from the Bench, John Newman19. Intellectual Property in the Courts: The Role of the Judge, Diane P. Wood