This Article explores the practical consequences of an important shift that has recently taken place in patent theory … intense attention at the level of theory, little has been said about the consequences of this debate for patent policy itself …. This Article addresses that void, developing a set of mid-level principles from coordination theory and showing how these …

issue in the law of intellectual property.This article offers a novel theory of fair use that provides both a better … direct allocation. The article's theory thus accords with recent Supreme Court cases by conceptualizing fair use not as an ….This theory supports a reconceptualization of the basic structure of copyright law that both broadens fair use and makes the …

Economic theory has struggled to produce a coherent narrative justifying the implementation of intellectual property …

For the first time ever, the Supreme Court's seminal decision in Grokster permits the theory of secondary liability in …