Copy Fights: The Future of Intellectual Property in the Information Age

Adam D. Thierer, Clyde Wayne Crews

Cato Institute, 2002 - Law - 295 pages

The Napsterization of just about everything digitizable -- books, music, movies, and, of course, software itself -- has brought copy protection issues to the forefront as never before.

Contents

• 1 Indelicate Imbalancing in Copyright and Patent Law: 1
• 2 Defending Intellectual Property: 17
• 3 Intellectual Property Information Age: 37
• 4 Are Patents and Copyrights Morally Justified? The Philosophy of Property Rights and Ideal Objects: 43
• II: 94
• 5 The Future of Intellectual Property in the Information Age: 95
• 6 His Napsters Voice: 107
• 7 Revising Copyright Law for the Information Age: 125
• 8 How Copyright Became Controversial: 147
• 9 A Lukewarm Defense of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act: 163
• Providing Locks for Digital Doors: 171
• 11 The New Legal Panic over Copyright: 177
• 12 Life after the DMCA and Napster: 185
• Can Freedom of Speech Survive?: 189
• Legal or Market Solutions?: 197
• 15 Protecting Intellectual Property in the Digital Age: 205
• 16 How Can They Patent That?: 221
• Nothing New under the Sun: 229
• A Systematic Approach to Evaluating Obviousness: 237
• Contributors: 273
• Index: 281

About the author

Adam Thierer is a senior fellow at the Progress & Freedom Foundation. As director of PFF's Center for Digital Media Freedom, he analyzes public policy developments that affect the economic and social aspects of the media industry, and especially First Amendment issues.

Crews is the director of technology studies at the Cato Institute.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Copy Fights: The Future of Intellectual Property in the Information Age
• Editors: Adam D. Thierer, Clyde Wayne Crews
• Publisher: Cato Institute, 2002
• ISBN: 1930865252, 9781930865259
• Length: 295 pages
• Subjects: Law / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice; Political Science / General; Political Science / Reference