This essay asks: How did we get into the current crisis of copyright law, and how to move beyond it? This crisis developed as proliferating and expanding rights entered into tensions with each other and with exceptions and limitations. It has become acute as media progress has brought cultural...

How to use the Internet to meet the worldwide patent crisis? Technological progress, swamping patent offices with filings, has provoked this crisis. Patent offices are neither efficiently examining filings nor optimally disclosing inventions. In response, this article proposes an interim...

This short essay assesses distinct approaches to delimiting intellectual property. Specifically, it addresses claims to control spillovers without which culture cannot move forward, notably spillovers of texts, images, techniques, information, ideas, etc. It contrasts methodologies: on the one...

This essay starts by critically contrasting normative principles that have historically guided the development of laws of copyright and of authors’ rights. Reconceptualizing notions key to these distinct types of laws, it then elaborates a new normative principle, aimed at enhancing sign...

This dialogue, between a philosopher and a lawyer, dramatizes the economic analysis of intellectual property critically. To start, with a stylized example of such property, it illustrates problems that the law has to address as cultural goods, such as works and inventions, tend to become public...

This paper addresses the present doctrinal crisis in the field of intellectual property and ventures some ideas on how research might advance toward resolutions. To start, the paper outlines how the classic laws of copyright and of patents crystallized in the eighteenth century, as law-makers...