creativity (focusing on patent, trade secret, and copyright protection) and protecting integrity of the commercial marketplace … property. It is organized around the two principal objectives of intellectual property law: promoting innovation and aesthetic … protection and other means of addressing the economic problem (such as public funding and prizes in the case of patent and …

principal objectives of intellectual property law: promoting innovation and aesthetic creativity (focusing on patent and … problem (such as public funding and prizes in the case of patent and copyright law and direct consumer protection statutes and … copyright protection) and protecting integrity of the commercial marketplace (trademark protection and unfair competition law …

to go through the charade of rescinding and regranting a copyright license for the express purpose of blocking the author …

This commentary discusses the U.S. Copyright Office's May 5, 2014 hearing on the scope of the Section 106 …(3) distribution right, including the role of legislative history in interpreting this provision of copyright law. Following hearings … Copyright Office to review and assess “the state of U.S. law recognizing and protecting making available and communication to …

the scope of copyright protection for computer software. By the mid 1990s, freedom to develop interoperable devices …, systems, and software triumphed over broad copyright protection for network features of computer software. Copyright peace … war when it brought suit alleging that Google infringed copyright in the Java application program interface packages (APIs …

copyright liability and technological innovation and some suggestive empirical results. The conceptual analysis demonstrates … that the question of whether indirect copyright liability chills technological innovation inherently requires consideration …, the Chilled Innovation conjecture downplays the beneficial effects of indirect copyright liability on the development of …

option of bringing software copyright and patent claims in the same complaint, any software company can secure exclusive … the scope of copyright protection for computer software. By various measures — economic output and growth, employment … of intellectual property protection for the software industry drives innovation and competition in this critical economic …

In conjunction with Congressional review of copyright law in light of technological and other developments that affect … the creation, dissemination, and use of copyrighted works, the U.S. Copyright Office announced on March 17, 2014 the …

This article describes the evolution of copyright protection for computer software. It shows how the courts … successfully deployed and adapted copyright doctrines in a manner that protected software against piracy while at the same time … allowing for competition and innovation …

Prior to the emergence of peer-to-peer technology, the Copyright Act’s distribution right was largely dormant. Most … right involved arcane scenarios. During the past several years, direct enforcement of the Copyright Act against file sharers … that copyright owners must prove that a sound recording placed in a peer-to-peer share folder was actually downloaded to …