Intellectual Property and Property Rights

Edited by Adam Mossoff, Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law, Virginia, US

‘Mossoff has compiled a rich collection of the best law journal articles involving various aspects of the increasingly complex domain of intellectual property rights. In a digital age where words, art, photographs, videos, ad music are now "shared" at increasingly viral speeds, Mossoff's Intellectual Property and Property Rights provides communication professors and lecturers with valuable classroom teaching tools, supported by intriguing real-world cases, for helping their students understand what can fairly be used.’

• Contents:AcknowledgementsIntroduction Adam MossoffPART I PROPERTY THEORY AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS A. Descriptive and Normative Accounts of "Intellectual Property" as Property1. Lawrence C. Becker (1993), ‘Deserving to Own Intellectual Property’2. Frank H. Easterbrook (1990), ‘Intellectual Property is Still Property’3. Richard A. Epstein (2001), ‘Intellectual Property: Old Boundaries and New Frontiers’4. Wendy J. Gordon (1993), ‘A Property Right in Self-Expression: Equality and Individualism in the Natural Law of Intellectual Property’5. Robert P. Merges (2008), ‘The Concept of Property in the Digital Era’6. Henry E. Smith (2007), ‘Intellectual Property as Property: Delineating Entitlements in Information’ B. Copyright7. Justin Hughes (2006), ‘Copyright and Incomplete Historiographies: Of Piracy, Propertization, and Thomas Jefferson’8. Richard A. Epstein (2005), ‘Liberty Versus Property? Cracks in the Foundations of Copyright Law’9. Christopher M. Newman (2011), ‘Transformation in Property and Copyright’ C. Patents10. Adam Mossoff (2007), ‘Who Cares What Thomas Jefferson Thought About Patents? Reevaluating the Patent “Privilege” in Historical Context’11. F. Scott Kieff (2001), ‘Property Rights and Property Rules for Commercializing Inventions’12. Edmund W. Kitch (1977), ‘The Nature and Function of the Patent System’D. Trademarks13. Mark P. McKenna (2006-2007), ‘The Normative Foundations of Trademark Law’E. Trade Secrets14. Robert G. Bone (1998), ‘A New Look at Trade Secret Law: Doctrine in Search of Justification’15. Eric R. Claeys (2011), ‘Private Law Theory and Corrective Justice in Trade Secrecy’ PART II THE PROPERTY-BASED CRITIQUE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 16. Tom G. Palmer (1990), ‘Are Patents and Copyrights Morally Justified? The Philosophy of Property Rights and Ideal Objects’17. Tom W. Bell (2008), ‘Copyright as Intellectual Property Privilege’