Prof. Michael J. Madison's Writing

Prof. Michael J. Madison
Associate Dean for Research
Associate Professor of Law
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
3900 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
+1 412 648 7855 (ph)
+1 412 648 2648 (fax)
michael.j.madison [at] gmail [dot] com

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Publications and Works in Progress
Archives of Previously Published Works

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Working Papers
Constructing Commons in the Cultural Environment:  A Theoretical Framework and Research Agenda [Spring 2008]
(with Brett Frischmann and Katherine Strandburg)
Information Governance [Spring 2008]
This paper connects the legitimacy of legal structures that manage information to cognitive concepts expressed metaphorically.
The University as a Constructed Cultural Commons
(forthcoming, Washington University J.L. & Policy (2008))
 
In Progress
IP's Incorporation Strategy [Spring 2008]
A working theory of how creative and scientific practice informs copyright and patent law.
 
Previously Published
The Law of Intellectual Property
(Aspen Publishers, 2006) (with Craig Nard and David Barnes)
Intellectual Property and Americana, or Why IP Gets the Blues
18 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. 677 (2008)
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Writing to Learn Law and Writing in Law: An Intellectual Property Illustration
52 St. Louis Univ. L.J. 823 (2008)
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Fair Use and Social Practices, in Intellectual Property and Information Wealth (Greenwood Publishers, 2006) (Peter Yu ed.)
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The Idea of the Law Review: Scholarship, Prestige, and Open Access
10 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 901 (2006)
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Metaphor, Objects, and Commodities
54 Cleve. St. L. Rev. 141 (2006) (with George Taylor)
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Social Software, Groups, and Governance
2006 Mich. St. L. Rev. 153
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Law as Design: Objects, Concepts, and Digital Things
56 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 381 (2005)
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Rewriting Fair Use and the Future of Copyright Reform
23 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 391 (2005)
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The Legitimacy of Open Source and Other Software Licenses
9 J. Internet L. 1 (2005)
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A Pattern-Oriented Approach to Fair Use
45 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1525 (2004)
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The Narratives of Cyberspace Law (or, Learning from Casablanca)
27 Colum. J. L. & Arts 249 (2004)
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Reconstructing the Software License
35 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 275 (2003)
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Rights of Access and the Shape of the Internet
44 B.C. L. Rev. 433 (2003)
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Where Does Creativity Come From? and Other Stories of Copyright
53 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 747 (2003)
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The Lawyer as Legal Scholar
(book review) Reviewing Academic Legal Writing, by Eugene Volokh
65 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 63 (2003)
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What's My Copy Right?
48 J. Copyright Soc’y (U.S.A.) 787 (2001)
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Complexity and Copyright in Contradiction
18 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L. J. 125 (2000)
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Legal-Ware: Contract and Copyright in the Digital Age
67 Fordham L. Rev. 1025 (1998)
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Last updated: July 24, 2008