Why Reform the U.S. Patent System?
Considering three important reforms to improve the current system.
Pamela Samuelson
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What’s at Stake in mgm v. Grokster?
Seeking to balance the needs of copyright holders and technology developers.
-nsolicited Communications as Trespass?
Attempting to stretch existing laws to address previously unforeseen technological issues.
How to balance the benefits of free speech and the need for secrecy.
The main purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright infringement but to change consumer expectations about what they are entitled to do with digital content.
Reverse Engineering Under Siege
Is reverse engineering a lawful way to acquire trade
secrets?
Toward a New Politics of Intellectual Property
Until recently, copyright was on the periphery of law because it involved technical rules for a highly specialized industry. The politics of copyright largely focused on intra-industry bickering. The typical response of a legislature to these intra-industry struggles has been to propose that affected parties meet behind closed doors and hammer out compromise language that […]
Intellectual Property For an Information Age: Introduction
How to balance the public interest, traditional legal principles, and the emerging digital reality.
Legally Speaking: Why the Anticircumvention Regulations Need Revision
Like a tempest in a teapot, the storm rages on over DMCA's ambiguous provisions.
Good News and Bad News on the Intellectual Property Front
For the past four years, my "Legally Speaking" columns have warned about overbroad and imbalanced proposals for digital copyright, database protection, and licensing of information legislation. Since I wrote my last column on these issues there have been some important developments. As to each, there is some good news and some bad news. One important […]
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