{"id":715,"date":"2014-01-28T11:43:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T15:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elplandehiram.org\/?page_id=715"},"modified":"2015-10-19T06:35:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T10:35:24","slug":"foundations-of-intellectual-property-january-2014-uottawa-no-links","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/elplandehiram.org\/?page_id=715","title":{"rendered":"Foundations of Intellectual Property – January 2014 uOttawa (no links)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 for Group Assignment, Schedules and other important information.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Session 1: Introduction<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n
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  • David H. Blankfein-Tabachnick<\/b>,<\/span> <\/b>Intellectual Property Doctrine and Midlevel Principles, 101 Cal L. Rev. 1315 (2013)<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Robert<\/b> Merges<\/b>, Foundations and Principles Redux: A Reply to Professor Blankfein-Tabachnick 101 Cal L. Rev. 1361 (2013)<\/li>\n
  • Madison, Michael J.,<\/b> (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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    RECOMMENDED <\/b><\/p>\n

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    • Seana Shiffrin<\/b>, Intellecutual 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<\/ul>\n

      Session 2:\u00a0<\/b>Property Paradigm 1: Locke and Friends<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n
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      • <\/b>John Locke, <\/b>The Second Treatise Of Civil Government (1690) <\/b>as edited in Robert Merges & Jane Ginsburg, Foundations of Intellectual Property, Foundation Press 2004.<\/li>\n
      • Justin<\/b> Hughes,<\/b> The Philosophy of Intellectual Property, 77 GEO. L. J 287 (1998) (pages 296-330)<\/b><\/li>\n
      • Robert Merges, <\/b>\u00a0Locke for the Masses: Property Rights and the Products of Collective Creativity (January 5, 2009)\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
      • Robert Merges,<\/b> Locke Remixed ; – ), UC Davis Law Review, Vol. 40, p. 101, 2007.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
      • William Fisher III<\/b>, Theories of Intellectual Property, at Munzer (Ed.), New Essays In Legal And Political Theory Of Property 168 (2001) <\/span>(pages 184-89)<\/b> http:\/\/elplandehiram.org\/documentos\/cursos\/ftpi\/FisherIPTheories.pdf<\/span><\/li>\n
      • Seana Shiffrin, <\/b>Lockean Arguments for Private Intellectual Property at Munzer (Ed.), New Essays In Legal And Political Theory Of Property \u00a0(2001)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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

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        • Nozick, <\/b>Anarchy State and Utopia (1974) (pages 174-182 <\/b>)<\/li>\n
        • Daniel Attas<\/b>, Lockean 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

          Session 3: Property Paradigm 2: Personality Rights and Malleability<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n
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          • Justin<\/b>Hughes,<\/b> The Philosophy of Intellectual Property, 77 GEO. L. J 287 (1998) <\/span>(pages 330-350)<\/b><\/li>\n
          • Roberta Rosenthal\u00a0<\/b>Kwall,<\/b> Inspiration and Innovation: The Intrinsic Dimension of the Artistic Soul, 81 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1945 (2006) <\/span>(pages 1962-1975<\/b>)<\/span><\/li>\n
          • William Fisher III<\/b>, Theories of Intellectual Property, at Munzer (Ed.), New Essays In Legal And Political Theory Of Property 168 (2001) <\/span>(pages 189-92)<\/b><\/li>\n
          • Peter K Yu, <\/b>Moral Rights 2.0 (October 15, 2010). LANDMARK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CASES AND THEIR LEGACY, pp. 13-32<\/span><\/li>\n
          • Pierre\u00a0<\/b>Bourdieu<\/b>, The Force of Law: Toward a Sociology of the Juridical Field, 38 Hst. L. J. 805 (1987) <\/span>(pages 831-39)<\/b>;<\/span><\/li>\n
          • Jeremy\u00a0<\/b>Waldron,<\/b> From Authors to Copiers: Individual Rights and Social Values in Intellectual Property, 68 CHI. KENT. L. REV. 841 (1993)<\/span> (pages 841-46, 862-68)<\/b><\/li>\n
          • Carol Rose,<\/b> Seeing property, in Property and Persuasion (1994) <\/span>(pages 285-294)<\/b><\/li>\n
          • Peter Jaszi<\/b>, Is There Such a Thing as Postmodern Copyright?, 12 Tul. J. Tech. & Intell. Prop. 105 (2009)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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

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            • Cyrill P. Rigamonti<\/b>,<\/b> Deconstructing Moral Rights, 47 Harv. Int\u2019l L.J. 353 (2006).<\/span><\/li>\n
            • Carol M.<\/b>Rose, <\/b>Canons of Property Talk, or, Blackstone\u2019s Anxiety, 108 YALE L.J. 601, 622 (1998).<\/span><\/li>\n
            • Richard Stallman<\/b>, Words to Avoid (or Use with Care) Because They Are Loaded or Confusing<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

              Session 4: \u00a0<\/b>Property Paradigm 3: Disobedience<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n
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              • Pe\u00f1alver & Katyal<\/b>, Property Outlaws 155 U Penn Law Rev 1095 (2007) <\/span>(Skim Part I; read the rest)<\/b><\/li>\n
              • John Tehranian,<\/b> Infringement Nation: Copyright Reform and the Law\/Norm Gap, Utah Law Review 537 (2007).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                RECOMMENDED<\/b>:<\/span><\/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.), <\/span>http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/archives\/win2012\/entries\/legal-obligation\/<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                  Session 5: Incentives Paradigm 1: Utilitarianism, Welfarism and Consequentialism<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n
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                  • Michael\u00a0<\/b>Abramowicz,<\/b> A Theory of Copyright\u2019s Derivative Right and Related Doctrines, 90 Minn. L. Rev. 317 (2005)<\/span><\/li>\n
                  • Shyamkrishna Balganesh<\/b>, Foreseeability and Copyright Incentives, 122 Harv. L. Rev. 1569 (2009) <\/span>(skip Parts III and V)<\/b><\/li>\n
                  • David McGowan<\/b>, Copyright Nonconsequentialism, 69 Mo. L. Rev. 1 (2004) (<\/span>1-16; 28-36)<\/b><\/li>\n
                  • Michele Boldrin and David Levine, <\/b>Does Intellectual Property help Innovation?, 5 Review of Law and Economics 991 (2009)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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

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                    • \u00a0<\/b>Amartya<\/b> Sen, <\/b>Utilitarianism and Welfarism, 76 J. OF PHIL. 463-89 (1979).<\/li>\n
                    • \u00a0Seana Shiffrin,<\/b> The 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) (new)<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                      Session 6: Incentives Paradigm 2: Private Ordering and Spillovers<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n
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                      • James Gibson, <\/b>Risk Aversion and Rights Accretion in Intellectual Property Law, 116 Yale L.J. 882 (2007) <\/span>(882-905; 931-51)<\/b><\/li>\n
                      • Robert P. Merges,<\/b> Contracting 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>, Spillovers, 107 Colum L Rev 257 (2007) <\/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>, Spillovers Theory and Its Conceptual Boundaries, 51 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 801 (2009)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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

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

                          Session 7: Incentives Paradigm 3: Enforcement and Intermediaries<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n
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                          • Reinier H. Kraakman<\/b>, Gatekeepers: The Anatomy of a Third-Party Enforcement Strategy, 2 J. L. ECON. & ORG. 53 (1986) <\/span>(pages 53-88)<\/b><\/li>\n
                          • Assaf Hamdani, <\/b>Gatekeeper Liability, 77 S. CAL. L. REV. 53 (2003) <\/span>(pages 910-930)<\/b><\/li>\n
                          • Digital Millennium Copyright Act<\/b>, 17 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
                          • Viacom v. YouTube, <\/b>676 F.3d 19 (2d Cir. 2012)<\/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 in <\/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
                          • Leaked TPP Text, <\/b>http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/tpp\/static\/pdf\/Wikileaks-secret-TPP-treaty-IP-chapter.pdf \u00a0(SECTION I: INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS, Article QQ.I.1)<\/b><\/li>\n
                          • \u00a0Timothy 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<\/ul>\n

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

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                            • Margot E. Kaminski, <\/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: <\/span>http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=2354324<\/span><\/li>\n
                            • Felix T. Wu<\/b>, Collateral Censorship and the Limits of Intermediary Immunity, 87 Notre Dame L. Rev. 293 (2011).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                              Session 8: Commons and Peer Production<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n
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                              • Yochai Benkler<\/b>, The Wealth of Networks (2006)<\/span> (Skim pages 59-90; Read pages 133-175)<\/b><\/li>\n
                              • Michael W. Carroll, <\/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<\/span><\/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><\/li>\n
                              • Jonathan Zittrain<\/b>, The Fourth Quadrant 78 Fordham L. Rev. __ (2010)<\/span><\/li>\n
                              • E. Gabriella Coleman & Alex Golub<\/b>, Hacker Practice: Moral Genres and the Cultural Articulation of Liberalism, 8 Anthropological Theory 255 (2008);<\/li>\n
                              • Julia Angwin & Geoffrey A. Fowler<\/b>, Volunteers Log Off as Wikipedia Ages, http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB125893981183759969<\/span><\/li>\n
                              • Tom Simonite<\/b>, The Decline of Wikipedia, MIT Technology Review, October 22, 2013, <\/span>http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/featuredstory\/520446\/the-decline-of-wikipedia\/<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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