Although both the antitrust and intellectual property laws are intended to foster innovation and efficiency, the former do so by outlawing monopolies and the latter by protecting them. These disparate methods cause antitrust law and intellectual property law to coexist in a state of permanent...

This paper examines a crucial difference between copyright and patents that requires very different analyses for each in the cases of notice effects and monopoly. In the first instance, notice costs will be shown to be much more import in the case of patents then they are in the case of...

Copyright legislation has been amended in many countries to provide legal protection to access- and use-controlling technology. Canada is considering similar provisions in Bill C-60. This article examines the policy issues that arise when copyright law, in conjunction with anticircumvention...