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Prof. Hiram A. Mel\u00e9ndez-Juarbe<\/strong><\/p>\n

With emphasis on Copyright Law, the course explores theoretical and policy foundations of major intellectual property doctrines. From an interdisciplinary standpoint we will look at theories of property, innovation policy, economic analysis as well as social and political theory as they inform current intellectual property law. In the end, the course will explore how multiple justifications coming from different methodological strands intersect to influence the law. As a theoretical exercise, the course does not attempt to replace basic intellectual property courses. Rather, the objective is to help students develop a general understanding of the field from a theoretical perspective.<\/p>\n

Click this Link to download the Syllabus\u00a0for Group Assignment, Schedules and other important information.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Session 1: Introduction, 3 Jan<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n
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  • Lemley, Mark A.<\/strong>, IP in a World Without Scarcity (March 24, 2014). Available at SSRN:\u00a0http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=2413974<\/li>\n
  • Deven R. Desai,<\/strong>\u00a0The New Steam: On Digitization, Decentralization, and Disruption (August 1, 2014). Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 65, No. 6, 2014. Available at SSRN:\u00a0http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=2508712<\/li>\n
  • Kenneth Einar Himma<\/strong>, Information and the Limits of Unlimited Supply (October 13, 2014). Available at SSRN:\u00a0http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=2509175\u00a0or\u00a0http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.2139\/ssrn.2509175<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    RECOMMENDED<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    • Seana Shiffrin<\/b>,\u00a0Intellecutual Property, in A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy (edited by Robert Goodin, Philip Pettit, and Thomas Pogge, Blackwell, 2007).<\/li>\n
    • Jeanne Fromme<\/b>r, Expressive Incentives in Intellectual Property, 98 VIRGINIA L REV 1745 (2012)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • David H. Blankfein-Tabachnick<\/b>,<\/span>\u00a0<\/b>Intellectual Property Doctrine and Midlevel Principles, 101 Cal L. Rev. 1315 (2013)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Robert<\/b>\u00a0Merges<\/b>, Foundations and Principles Redux: A Reply to Professor Blankfein-Tabachnick 101 Cal L. Rev. 1361 (2013)<\/li>\n
    • Madison, Michael J.,<\/b>\u00a0(Draft) IP Things as Boundary Objects: The Case of the Copyright Work (March 31, 2013). U. of Pittsburgh Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-12.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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      Session 2:\u00a0<\/b>Property Paradigm 1: Locke and Friends, 4 Jan<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n
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      • John Locke,\u00a0<\/b>The Second Treatise Of Civil Government (1690)\u00a0<\/b>as edited in Robert Merges & Jane Ginsburg, Foundations of Intellectual Property, Foundation Press 2004.<\/li>\n
      • Justin<\/b>\u00a0Hughes,<\/b>\u00a0The Philosophy of Intellectual Property, 77 GEO. L. J 287 (1998)\u00a0(pages 296-330)<\/b><\/li>\n
      • Robert Merges,\u00a0<\/b>Locke for the Masses: Property Rights and the Products of Collective Creativity (January 5, 2009)\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
      • Robert Merges,<\/b>\u00a0Locke Remixed ; – ), UC Davis Law Review, Vol. 40, p. 101, 2007.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
      • William Fisher III<\/b>,\u00a0Theories of Intellectual Property, at Munzer (Ed.), New Essays In Legal And Political Theory Of Property 168 (2001)\u00a0<\/span>(pages 184-89)<\/b><\/li>\n
      • Seana Shiffrin,\u00a0<\/b>Lockean Arguments for Private Intellectual Property at Munzer (Ed.), New Essays In Legal And Political Theory Of Property (2001)<\/span> (only\u00a0parts II and III: “Lockean Arguments for Private Property” and “A Lockean Approach to Intellectual Property”, PDF pages 6-21<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        RECOMMENDED<\/b><\/p>\n

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        • Nozick,\u00a0<\/b>Anarchy State and Utopia (1974) (pages 174-182\u00a0<\/b>)<\/li>\n
        • Daniel Attas<\/b>,\u00a0Lockean Justifications of Intellectual Property, in Axel Gorsseries, Alain Marciano and Alain Strowel, Intellectual Property And Theories Of Justice 29 (2008)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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          Session 3: Property Paradigm 2: Personality Rights, Malleability and Disobedience, 5 Jan<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n
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          • Justin\u00a0<\/b>Hughes,<\/b>\u00a0The Philosophy of Intellectual Property, 77 GEO. L. J 287 (1998)\u00a0<\/span>(pages 330-350)<\/b><\/li>\n
          • Roberta Rosenthal\u00a0<\/b>Kwall,<\/b>\u00a0Inspiration and Innovation: The Intrinsic Dimension of the Artistic Soul, 81 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1945 (2006)\u00a0<\/span>(pages 1962-1975<\/b>)<\/span><\/li>\n
          • Peter K Yu,\u00a0<\/b>Moral Rights 2.0 (October 15, 2010). LANDMARK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CASES AND THEIR LEGACY, pp. 13-32<\/span><\/li>\n
          • Pe\u00f1alver & Katyal<\/b>,\u00a0Property Outlaws 155 U Penn Law Rev 1095 (2007)\u00a0(1128-1140)<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n
          • John Tehranian,<\/b>\u00a0Infringement Nation: Copyright Reform and the Law\/Norm Gap, Utah Law Review 537 (2007).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

            RECOMMENDED<\/b>:<\/span><\/p>\n

            (a) Moral Rights and Authorship<\/p>\n

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            • William Fisher III<\/b>,\u00a0Theories of Intellectual Property, at Munzer (Ed.), New Essays In Legal And Political Theory Of Property 168 (2001)\u00a0<\/span>(pages 189-92)<\/b><\/li>\n
            • Cyrill P. Rigamonti<\/b>,<\/b>\u00a0Deconstructing Moral Rights, 47 Harv. Int\u2019l L.J. 353 (2006).<\/span><\/li>\n
            • Carol M.<\/b>Rose,\u00a0<\/b>Canons of Property Talk, or, Blackstone\u2019s Anxiety, 108 YALE L.J. 601, 622 (1998).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

              (b) Malleability<\/p>\n

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              • Richard Stallman<\/b>, Words to Avoid (or Use with Care) Because They Are Loaded or Confusing<\/span><\/li>\n
              • Pierre\u00a0<\/b>Bourdieu<\/b>,\u00a0The Force of Law: Toward a Sociology of the Juridical Field, 38 Hst. L. J. 805 (1987)\u00a0<\/span>(pages 831-39)<\/b><\/li>\n
              • Jeremy\u00a0<\/b>Waldron,<\/b>\u00a0From Authors to Copiers: Individual Rights and Social Values in Intellectual Property, 68 CHI. KENT. L. REV. 841 (1993)<\/span>\u00a0(pages 841-46, 862-68)<\/b><\/li>\n
              • Carol Rose,<\/b>\u00a0Seeing property, in Property and Persuasion (1994)\u00a0<\/span>(pages 285-294)<\/b><\/li>\n
              • Peter Jaszi<\/b>,\u00a0Is There Such a Thing as Postmodern Copyright?, 12 Tul. J. Tech. & Intell. Prop. 105 (2009)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                (c) Disobedience<\/p>\n

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                • Leslie Green<\/b>, Legal Obligation and Authority, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2012 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.),\u00a0<\/span>http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/archives\/win2012\/entries\/legal-obligation\/<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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                  Session 4: Incentives Paradigm 1: Utilitarianism, Welfarism and Consequentialism, 6 Jan\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n
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                  • Michael\u00a0<\/b>Abramowicz,<\/b>\u00a0A Theory of Copyright\u2019s Derivative Right and Related Doctrines, 90 Minn. L. Rev. 317,\u00a0325-326; 342-357\u00a0<\/strong>(2005)<\/span><\/li>\n
                  • Shyamkrishna Balganesh<\/b>,\u00a0Foreseeability and Copyright Incentives, 122 Harv. L. Rev. 1569 (2009)\u00a0<\/span>(Part IV, skim Intro)<\/b><\/li>\n
                  • David McGowan<\/b>,\u00a0Copyright Nonconsequentialism, 69 Mo. L. Rev. 1 (2004) (<\/span>1-16; 28-36)<\/b><\/del><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                    RECOMMENDED:<\/b><\/p>\n

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                    • Amartya<\/b>\u00a0Sen,\u00a0<\/b>Utilitarianism and Welfarism, 76 J. OF PHIL. 463-89 (1979).<\/li>\n
                    • Seana Shiffrin,<\/b>\u00a0The Incentives Argument for Intellectual Property Protection in Axel Gorsseries, Alain Marciano and Alain Strowel, Intellectual Property And Theories Of Justice (2008).<\/li>\n
                    • Glynn S. Lunney<\/strong>, Empirical Copyright: A Case Study of File Sharing and Music Output (December 28, 2013)<\/li>\n
                    • Michele Boldrin and David Levine,\u00a0<\/b>Does Intellectual Property help Innovation?, 5 Review of Law and Economics 991 (2009)<\/span><\/li>\n
                    • Andreas Rahmatian<\/strong>, A Fundamental Critique of the Law-and-Economics Analysis of Intellectual Property Rights (May 30, 2013). International Intellectual Property Scholars Series, 17 Marquette Intellectual Property L. Rev. 191 (2013). Available at SSRN:\u00a0http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=2388136<\/span>\n
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                      Session 5: Incentives Paradigm 2: Private Ordering and Spillovers, 9 Jan<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n
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                      • James Gibson,\u00a0<\/b>Risk Aversion and Rights Accretion in Intellectual Property Law, 116 Yale L.J. 882 (2007)\u00a0<\/span>(882-905)<\/b><\/li>\n
                      • Robert P. Merges,<\/b>\u00a0Contracting Into Liability Rules: Intellectual Property Rights and Collective Rights Organizations, 84 Cal. L. Rev. 1293 (1996) as edited in Robert Merges & Jane Ginsburg, Foundations of Intellectual Property, Foundation Press 2004.<\/span><\/li>\n
                      • Brett Frischmann & Mark Lemley<\/b>,\u00a0Spillovers, 107 Colum L Rev 257 (2007)\u00a0<\/span>(Pages 257-284<\/b>)<\/span><\/li>\n
                      • Anne Barron<\/b>, Copyright Infringement, ‘Free-Riding’ and the Lifeworld (December 8, 2009) in COPYRIGHT AND PIRACY: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CRITIQUE, Lionel Bently, Jennifer Davis and Jane Ginsburg, eds., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.<\/span><\/li>\n
                      • Brett Frischmann<\/b>,\u00a0Spillovers Theory and Its Conceptual Boundaries, 51 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 801 (2009)<\/span><\/del><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                        RECOMMENDED<\/strong><\/p>\n

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                        • Mark Lemley, Contracting Around Liability Rules (February 7, 2012). Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 415. Available at SSRN:\u00a0http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=1910284<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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                          Session 6: Incentive Paradigm 3: The Empirical Turn, 10 Jan<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n
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                          • Christopher Buccafusco, Zachary Burns and Jeanne Fromer, Christopher Sprigman<\/strong>, Experimental Tests of Intellectual Property Laws\u2019 Creativity Thresholds (June 1, 2014). Texas Law Review, Vol. 93, p. 1921, 2014; Available at SSRN:\u00a0http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=2443667\u00a0(Introduction and pages<\/strong>\u00a01932-74, 1977-80<\/strong>)<\/li>\n
                          • Christopher J. Buccafusco and Christopher Sprigman<\/strong>, The Creativity Effect (July 22, 2010). University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 78, p. 31, 2011. Available at SSRN:\u00a0http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=1647009<\/li>\n
                          • Bechtold, Stefan and Buccafusco, Christopher and Sprigman, Christopher Jon<\/strong>, Innovation Heuristics: Experiments on Sequential Creativity in Intellectual Property (December 15, 2015). Indiana Law Journal, 2016, Forthcoming. Available at SSRN:\u00a0http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=2704107<\/del><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                            RECOMMENDED<\/strong><\/p>\n

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                            • Empirical Studies Database,\u00a0<\/strong>Center for Empirical Studies of Intellectual Property (CESIP), Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent College of Law,\u00a0http:\/\/www.kentlaw.edu\/cesip\/<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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                              Session 7: Incentives Paradigm 4: Enforcement and Intermediaries, 11 Jan<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n
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                              • Reinier H. Kraakman<\/b>,\u00a0Gatekeepers: The Anatomy of a Third-Party Enforcement Strategy, 2 J. L. ECON. & ORG. 53 (1986)\u00a0<\/span>(pages 53-78)<\/b><\/li>\n
                              • Assaf Hamdani,\u00a0<\/b>Gatekeeper Liability, 77 S. CAL. L. REV. 53 (2003)\u00a0<\/span>(pages 910-921)<\/b><\/li>\n
                              • Digital Millennium Copyright Act<\/b>,\u00a017 USC sections \u00a7 512(k)(1); \u00a7 512(c); \u00a7 512(i); \u00a7 512(h); \u00a7 512(f); \u00a7 512(m); \u00a7 512(j).<\/span><\/li>\n
                              • Claudio Ruiz Gallardo and J. Carlos Lara G\u00e1lvez,\u00a0<\/b>Liability of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and the exercise of freedom of expression in Latin America and Intermediaries\u00a0in\u00a0<\/i>Towards an Internet Free of Censorship: Proposals for Latin America (Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information) (2012) (pages 13-34<\/b>)<\/li>\n
                              • Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, Chapter 18 (Intellectual Property), Section J (18:81, 18:82) (pages 18-57-18-60), Annex 18-E (page 18-73) and Annex 18-F (page 18-75)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                                RECOMMENDED:<\/b><\/p>\n

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                                • Margot E. Kaminski,\u00a0<\/b>The Capture of International Intellectual Property Law through the U.S. Trade Regime Kaminski, (November 14, 2013). Southern California Law Review, 2014 Forthcoming. Available at SSRN:\u00a0<\/span>http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=2354324<\/li>\n
                                • Felix T. Wu<\/b>,\u00a0Collateral Censorship and the Limits of Intermediary Immunity, 87 Notre Dame L. Rev. 293 (2011).<\/span><\/li>\n
                                • Timothy Lee<\/b>, Here\u2019s why Obama trade negotiators push the interests of Hollywood and drug companies, The Washington Post, November 26, 2013,\u00a0http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-switch\/wp\/2013\/11\/26\/heres-why-obama-trade-negotiators-push-the-interests-of-hollywood-and-drug-companies\/<\/li>\n
                                • Urban, Jennifer M. and Karaganis, Joe and Schofield, Brianna L.<\/strong>, Notice and Takedown in Everyday Practice (March 29, 2016). Available at SSRN:\u00a0http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=2755628<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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                                  Session 8: Commons and Peer Production, 12 Jan<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n
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                                  • Frishmann, Madison & Strandburg<\/strong>, Governing the Knowledge Commons\u00a0in Governing the Knowledge Commons\u00a0<\/i>(Oxford 2014) (pages 1-39)<\/li>\n
                                  • Charles M. Schweik<\/strong>, Toward the Comparison of Open Source Commons Institutions\u00a0in Governing the Knowledge Commons\u00a0<\/i>(Oxford 2014) (pages 255-276)<\/li>\n
                                  • E. Gabriella Coleman & Alex Golub<\/b>,\u00a0Hacker Practice: Moral Genres and the Cultural Articulation of Liberalism, 8 Anthropological Theory 255 (2008)<\/li>\n
                                  • Michael W. Carroll,\u00a0<\/b>Creative Commons as Conversational Copyright Intellectual Property and Information Wealth: Issues and Practices in the Digital Age (2006 ed). Ed. Peter K. Yu. Praeger, 2006. 445-461<\/li>\n
                                  • Niva Elkin-Koren<\/b>, What Contracts Cannot Do: The Limits of Private Ordering in Facilitating a Creative Commons, 74 Fordham L. Rev. 375 (2005)<\/span><\/del><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                                    RECOMMENDED:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

                                      \n
                                    • Michael Madison, Brett Frischmann, Katherine Strandburg<\/b>, Constructing Commons in the Cultural Environment, 95 Cornell L Rev. 657 (2010)<\/li>\n
                                    • Madison, Michael J.<\/strong>, Information Abundance and Knowledge Commons (November 10, 2016). A chapter in User Generated Law: Re-Constructing Intellectual Property in a Knowledge Society, edited by Thomas Riis (Edward Elgar, 2016); U. of Pittsburgh Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2016-35. Available at SSRN: https:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=2867578<\/li>\n
                                    • Yochai Benkler<\/b>,\u00a0The Wealth of Networks (2006)\u00a0(Skim pages 59-90; Read pages 133-175)<\/b><\/li>\n
                                    • Julia Angwin & Geoffrey A. Fowler<\/b>, Volunteers Log Off as Wikipedia Ages,\u00a0http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB125893981183759969<\/li>\n
                                    • Tom Simonite<\/b>, The Decline of Wikipedia, MIT Technology Review, October 22, 2013,\u00a0http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/featuredstory\/520446\/the-decline-of-wikipedia\/<\/li>\n
                                    • Jonathan Zittrain<\/b>, The Fourth Quadrant 78 Fordham L. Rev. __ (2010)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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                                      Session 9: Speech Paradigm, 13 Jan<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n
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                                      • Jack Balkin<\/b>,<\/span>\u00a0<\/b>The Future of Free Expression in a Digital Age, 33 Pepp. L. Rev. 427 (2009).<\/span><\/li>\n
                                      • Owen Fiss<\/b>, Free Speech and Social Structure, 71 Iowa L Rev 1405 (1986).<\/span><\/li>\n
                                      • Seana Shiffrin,\u00a0<\/b>A Thinker-Based Approach to Freedom of Speech, 27 CONST. COMM. 283 (2011)<\/li>\n
                                      • Jennifer Rothman<\/b>, Liberating Copyright: Thinking Beyond Free Speech, 95 Cornell L. Rev. 463 (2010)\u00a0<\/span>(Read Abstract and pages 513-28)<\/b><\/li>\n
                                      • Neil W. Netanel,\u00a0<\/b>Copyright in a Democratic Civil Society, 106 YALE L. J. 283 (1996)\u00a0<\/span>(pages 341-64)<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                                        RECOMMENDED:<\/b><\/p>\n

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                                        • Hiram Mel\u00e9ndez-Juarbe<\/b>, Selected Bibliography on Copyright Law and Freedom of Speech, September 27, 2013,\u00a0http:\/\/derechoalderecho.org\/2011\/09\/27\/libertad-de-expresion-y-derechos-de-autor-bibliografia-selecta\/<\/li>\n
                                        • Golan v. Holder,\u00a0<\/b>132 S. Ct. 873, 181 L. Ed. 2d 835 (2012)<\/li>\n
                                        • Harper & Row v. Nation Enterprises,\u00a0<\/b>471 U.S. 539 (1985)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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                                          Session 10: Fair Use and Fair Dealing, 16 Jan<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n
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                                          • Wendy Gordon,\u00a0<\/b>Fair Use as market Failure: A Structural and Economic Analysis of the Betamax Case and Its Predecessors as edited in Robert Merges & Jane Ginsburg, Foundations of Intellectual Property, Foundation Press 2004.<\/li>\n
                                          • Rebecca Tushnet<\/b>, Copy This Essay: How Fair Use Doctrine Harms Free Speech and How Copying Serves It, 114 YALE L. J. 535 (2004)\u00a0(pages 549-62)<\/b><\/li>\n
                                          • Fred Von Lohman,<\/b>\u00a0Fair Use as Innovation Policy, 23 BERKELEY TECH. L. J 1 (2008)<\/li>\n
                                          • Niva Elkin-Koren and Orit Fischman Afori<\/strong>, Taking Users’ Rights to the Next Level: A Pragmatist Approach to Fair Use (August 20, 2014). Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, Vol. 33, 2014 Forthcoming. Available at SSRN:\u00a0http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=2483939<\/li>\n
                                          • Michael Geist<\/strong>, Fairness Found: How Canada Quietly Shifted from Fair Dealing to Fair Use, in The Copyright Pentalogy: How the supreme Court of Canada shook the foundations of Canadian Copyright law,\u00a0pages 157-186\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                                            RECOMMENDED<\/strong><\/p>\n