Copyright law has a clearly-established doctrine of "fair use." While its parameters and applications are frequently debated, the existence of the doctrine is statutory and undisputed. Patent and copyright law are closely related and they freely borrow from each other, yet this important area of...

The quest for technological leadership has caused the widespread use of intellectual property protection (IPP) as an instrument of national technology policies. Even the Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) can be interpreted as an attempt to hinder the international...

We study the incentives that governments have to protect intellectual property in a trading world economy. We consider a world economy with ongoing innovation in two countries that differ in market size and in their capacities for innovation. We associate the strength of IPR protection with the...