My views of the deficiencies and virtues of intellectual property scholarship pop up on this blog from time to time, usually just before or just after the annual IPSC – Intellectual Property Scholars Conference. See posts from 2014, and 2010, and 2007.
I am headed to Chicago tomorrow for the 2015 edition of IPSC, but instead of ranting about the state of IP scholarship, instead I’ll point you all to a provocative article:
Andrew Abbott, “Varieties of Ignorance,” American Sociologist, 41:174-189, 2010.
You’ll need access to Springer or JSTOR, etc., probably through an institutional subscription, to read the whole thing in English. At least part of the English language version may be available here. There is a German language version available here.
The video above is, of course, the trailer for “Birdman, or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance,” which won the Best Picture Academy Award earlier this year. I enjoyed that film but thought that “Boyhood” was superior in just about every way.