Intellectual Property and the Public Domain

Edited by Robert P. Merges, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati Professor of Law and Technology and Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, University of California, Berkeley and Amy L. Landers, Professor of Law and Director of the Intellectual Property Concentration, Drexel University, Thomas R. Kline School of Law, US

‘This volume collects key writings on the concept of the public domain, in both copyright and patent, offering a selection of indispensable writings. The contents include some of the most influential writings on intellectual property and its limits from the past few decades, using the structuring idea of what must be free for all to use to understand what can be protected by intellectual property law.’

• Contents:Introduction Robert P. Merges and Amy L. LandersPART IDEFINING THE PUBLIC DOMAIN 1. David Lange (1981), ‘Recognizing the Public Domain’, Law and Contemporary Problems, 44 (4), Autumn, 147–782. Jessica Litman (1990), ‘The Public Domain’, Emory Law Journal, 39 (4), Fall, 965–10233. Pamela Samuelson (2006), ‘Enriching Discourse on Public Domains’, Duke Law Journal, 55 (4), February, 783–834PART IIJustifications FOR the Public Domain 4. Yochai Benkler (1999), ‘Free as the Air to Common Use: First Amendment Constraints on Enclosure of the Public Domain’, New York University Law Review, 74 (2), May, 354–4465. Julie E. Cohen (2005), ‘The Place of the User in Copyright Law’, Fordam Law Review, 74 (2), November, 347–746. Wendy J. Gordon (1993), ‘A Property Right in Self Expression: Equality and Individualism in the Natural Law of Intellectual Property’, Yale Law Journal, 102 (7), May, 1533–6097. Lawrence Lessig (2004), ‘Free(ing) Culture for Remix’, Utah Law Review, 961–758. Paul Goldstein (1971), ‘The Competitive Mandate: From Sears to Lear’, California Law Review, 59 (4), June, 873–904PART IIIACCESS TO INFORMATION IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN 9. James Boyle (2003), ‘The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain’, Law and Contemporary Problems, 66 (1/2), Winter/Spring, 33–7410. Randal C. Picker (2012), ‘Access and the Public Domain’, San Diego Law Review, 49, 1183–21411. Robert P. Merges (1996), ‘Property Rights Theory and the Commons: The Case of Scientific Research’, Social Philosophy and Policy, 13 (2), July, 145–67 12. Rochelle Dreyfuss (2004), ‘Protecting the Public Domain of Science: Has the Time for an Experimental Use Defense Arrived?’, Arizona Law Review, 46 (3), 457–72PART IVCREATING WITHIN THE COMMONS13. Lawrence Lessig (2004), ‘The Creative Commons’, Montana Law Review, 65 (1), Winter, 1–1314. Yochai Benkler (2002), ‘Coase’s Penguin or, Linux and “The Nature of the Firm”’, Yale Law Journal, 112 (3), December, 369–44615. Jason Schultz and Jennifer M. Urban (2012), ‘Protecting Open Innovation: The Defensive Patent License as a New Approach to Patent Threats, Transaction Costs, and Tactical Disarmament’, Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, 26 (1), Fall, 1–67 16. Michael J. Madison, Brett M. Frischmann and Katherine J. Strandburg (2010), ‘Constructing Commons in the Cultural Environment’, Cornell Law Review, 95 (4), 657–709 PART VREFLECTIONS ON THE PUBLIC DOMAIN 17. Robert P. Merges (2004), ‘A New Dynamism in the Public Domain’, University of Chicago Law Review, 71 (1), Winter, 183–20318. Anupam Chander and Madhavi Sunder (2004), ‘The Romance of the Public Domain’, California Law Review, 92 (5), October, 1331–73Index