Major e-book publishers are being sued by a group of independent publishers who are complaining that services like Kindle and… Read More »Independent Book Publishers Take on Amazon and Other Major E-Publishers
The phrase “Evil Empire” never appears in any of the films of the Star Wars franchise. Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart)… Read More »Phantom Quotations Ahead
Worth watching: Efforts in Canada (by Eli Lilly), in Australia (by Philip Morris), and elsewhere to characterize intellectual property rights… Read More »IP as Investment Under International Law
Does IP have its models of creativity and innovation all wrong? Rebecca Tushnet posted this characteristically thorough account of a… Read More »Creativity as an Emergent Property of a Complex System
We Buy White Albums, Rutherford Chang’s project now at Recess in New York (NYT coverage here), reminds me that an… Read More »White Albums as Compilation Work