LEADER 04149nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910778438003321 005 20230617041836.0 010 $a0-674-26529-7 010 $a0-674-03991-2 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674039919 035 $a(CKB)1000000000805491 035 $a(OCoLC)449915091 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10328824 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000143534 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11157613 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000143534 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10111759 035 $a(PQKB)11597956 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300646 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300646 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10328824 035 $a(OCoLC)923112288 035 $a(DE-B1597)590392 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674039919 035 $a(OCoLC)1294425596 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000805491 100 $a20030501d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe economic structure of intellectual property law$b[electronic resource] /$fWilliam M. Landes, Richard A. Posner 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (449 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-01204-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $t1 The Economic Theory of Property -- $t2 How to Think about Copyright -- $t3 A Formal Model of Copyright -- $t4 Basic Copyright Doctrines -- $t5 Copyright in Unpublished Works -- $t6 Fair Use, Parody, and Burlesque -- $t7 The Economics of Trademark Law -- $t8 The Optimal Duration of Copyrights and Trademarks -- $t9 The Legal Protection of Postmodern Art -- $t10 Moral Rights and the Visual Artists Rights Act -- $t11 The Economics of Patent Law -- $t12 The Patent Court: A Statistical Evaluation -- $t13 The Economics of Trade Secrecy Law -- $t14 Antitrust and Intellectual Property -- $t15 The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Law -- $tConclusion -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tCase Index -- $tAuthor Index -- $tSubject Index 330 $aThis book takes a fresh look at the most dynamic area of American law today, comprising the fields of copyright, patent, trademark, trade secrecy, publicity rights, and misappropriation. Topics range from copyright in private letters to defensive patenting of business methods, from moral rights in the visual arts to the banking of trademarks, from the impact of the court of patent appeals to the management of Mickey Mouse. The history and political science of intellectual property law, the challenge of digitization, the many statutes and judge-made doctrines, and the interplay with antitrust principles are all examined. The treatment is both positive (oriented toward understanding the law as it is) and normative (oriented to the reform of the law). Previous analyses have tended to overlook the paradox that expanding intellectual property rights can effectively reduce the amount of new intellectual property by raising the creators' input costs. Those analyses have also failed to integrate the fields of intellectual property law. They have failed as well to integrate intellectual property law with the law of physical property, overlooking the many economic and legal-doctrinal parallels. This book demonstrates the fundamental economic rationality of intellectual property law, but is sympathetic to critics who believe that in recent decades Congress and the courts have gone too far in the creation and protection of intellectual property rights. 606 $aIntellectual property$zUnited States 606 $aIntellectual property$xEconomic aspects 615 0$aIntellectual property 615 0$aIntellectual property$xEconomic aspects. 676 $a346.7304/8 700 $aLandes$b William M$0255156 701 $aPosner$b Richard A$0110175 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778438003321 996 $aEconomic structure of intellectual property Law$91131201 997 $aUNINA