This brief Comment was prepared as part of a conference on Intellectual Property and Social Justice at U.C. Davis Law School in March, 2006. I argue here against a broad legal right to remix digital content - to freely alter or modify pre-existing copyrighted works. I first note that remix...

Rapid advances in digital and life sciences technology continue to spur the evolution of intellectual property law. As professors and practitioners in this field know all too well, Congress and the courts continue to develop intellectual property law and jurisprudence at a rapid pace. For that...

This Chapter describes various philosophical perspectives on the law and economics paradigm in intellectual property. It begins with a description of utilitarianism, which is the philosophical foundation on which law and economics is built. It then describes an alternative way that law and...

In many industries, the arc of our contemporary economy bends towards bigness. The now-ubiquitous digital platform companies such as Amazon, Facebook, and Netflix and (in China) Baidu, Tencent, and Alibaba are the best-known examples. While some concerned onlookers propose structural remedies,...

Intellectual property rights (IPRs) appear to play an important role in facilitating production and exchange in certain input markets. This paper provides a simple theory about the relationship between stronger IPRs and contract-based production under assumptions of incomplete contracting....

This foreword for a symposium issue of the Texas Law Review discusses the evolution of intellectual property law scholarship, with particular attention to developments in empirically oriented IP scholarship. Over the past few decades, IP scholarship, outlets for its publication, and the IP...