Besitzen Autoren ihre Werke? Ist Wissen ohne rechtlichen Schutz vermarktbar, verwertbar oder wertlos? Dieser Sammelband gibt in 15 Beiträgen einen Überblick über die sich wandelnde Beziehung zwischen Wissen und Eigentum. In so verschiedenen Bereichen wie der klassischen Musik, der...

As part of the festschrift for Marshall Leaffer, this tribute focuses on what would have happened had he, like the fictional character Captain Buck Rogers, been frozen on his way to academia in 1978. What will he discover upon his return in 2021? Will he find the developments in the intervening...

In this Article, written for a symposium on the future of libraries in the digital age, I present and challenge two common views about the scope of the first-sale doctrine, or exhaustion: namely, that the doctrine applies only to the transfer of tangible copies of works but not to the transfer...

Knowledge is sticky because it adheres to people along social routes, lodged within relational and collective modalities, as well as through copyright’s proverbial fixed works that can be transacted more freely. Sticky knowledge may in fact constitute a much larger body of knowledge than we...