A few years ago I had a student who was possessed by the idea that there is a body of… Read More »Burying Innovation

It’s easy to forget that IP is but one of many ways to “promote the progress of the arts and… Read More »The Strange Romance of IP Expansionism and Aesthetic Relativism

I’ve been wanting to write about cultural environmentalism here for some time. I think it’s one of the most exciting movements in contemporary IP.

In Toward an Ecology of Intellectual Property, I argue that IP scholarship needs to push the environmental analogy pioneered by James Boyle a bit further by using tools developed by environmental economists. In order to give a fuller sense of the value of an intellectual commons protected by fair use, copyright defendants should mimic the type of valuation of environmental commons pioneered by economists studying biodiversity. . . . Read More »Cultural Environmentalism

C.E. Petit at Scrivener’s Error sends an alert to a story in today’s Washington Post that talks about Antigua’s WTO… Read More »Gambling with Copyright

A few weeks ago, Senator Ted Stevens enlightened us with the observation that “the internet is not a big truck.”… Read More »Duopoly Blues