Expanding the Boundaries of Intellectual Property

Innovation Policy for the Knowledge Society
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-829857-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 492 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 898 g

This book focuses on the question of how much control innovators should be given over their works. The first parts examine the trend to increase control: first, by expanding the scope of intellectual property rights to add new subject matter; secondly, through increasing transactional autonomy. The former issue represents the key concerns of the intellectual property community; the latter issue is currently before both state and national legislatures.

The question that these groups are debating is the subject of the next part: whether strong intellectual property rights, coupled with a high degree of transactional autonomy, promote innovation or chill interchange. One view is that the current legal regime should not be altered because it represents the right balance between the needs of information producers and the requirements of users. The contrary view is that stronger rights would allow potential collaborators to find one another, bargain for beneficial exchanges, and reallocate rights. The final sections explore the bases in constitutions, laws, and treaties for protecting the public domain. Four judges from the US federal courts and the UK high court then debate the practicalities of the frameworks proposed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dreyfuss, Rochelle

Zimmerman, Diane L.

First, Harry

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Forschung & Entwicklung (F&E), Innovation
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung
• Rechtswissenschaften Wirtschaftsrecht Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz allg., Marken- und Kennzeichenrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Wirtschaftsrecht Medienrecht Telekommunikationsrecht, IT-Recht, Internetrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- PART I: EXPANDING THE PRIVATE DOMAIN

- 1: F.M. Scherer: The Innovation Lottery

- 2: Jerome H. Reichman: Of Green Tulips and Legal Kudzu: Repackaging Rights in Subpatentable Innovation

- 3: Jane C. Ginsburg: U.S. Initiatives to Protect Works of Low Authorship

- PART II: THE GROWTH OF PRIVATE ORDERING REGIMES

- 4: Carl Shapiro: Setting Compatibility Standards: Cooperation or Collusion?

- 5: Kenneth W. Dam: Self-Help in the Digital Jungle

- 6: Robert P. Merges: Institutions for Intellectual Property Transactions: The Case of Patent Pools

- 7: Bennett M. Lincoff: A Plan for the Future of Music Performance Rights Organizations in the Digital Age

- PART III: THE CLAIMS OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN

- 8: Niva Elkin-Koren: A Public-Regarding Approach to Contracting Over Copyrights

- 9: Rebecca S. Eisenberg: Bargaining over the Transfer of Proprietary Research Tools: Is this Market Failing or Emerging?

- 10: Walter W. Powell: Networks of Learning in Biotechnology: Opportunities and Constraints Associated with Relational Contracting in a Knowledge-Intensive Field

- 11: Yochai Benkler: A Political Economy of the Public Domain: Markets in Information Goods vs. the Marketplace of Ideas

- PART IV: IMPLEMENTING INNOVATION POLICY FOR THE INFORMATION AGE

- 12: Thomas Dreier: Balancing Proprietary and Public Domain Interests: Inside or Outside of Proprietary Rights?

- 13: Susan DeSanti (with William Cohen, Nancy Dickinson, and Michael Fanelli): Competition to Innovate: Strategies for Proper Antitrust Assessments

- 14: Bernt Hugenholtz: Copyright and Freedom of Expression in Europe

- 15: Hanns Ullrich: Intellectual Property, Access to Information and Antitrust: Harmony, Disharmony and International Harmonization

- PART V: VIEWS FROM THE BENCH

- 16: Frank H. Easterbrook: Who Decides the Extent of Rights in Intellectual Property?

- 17: Sir Robin Jacob: Expanding the Bounds of Intellectual Property

- 18: John Newman: Views from the Bench

- 19: Diane P. Wood: Intellectual Property in the Courts: The Role of the Judge

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Dreyfuss was 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 Samuel Tilden 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. He is Charles L. Denison Professor of law, as well as Director of the Trade Regulation Programme.