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Foundations of Intellectual Property Hiram A.

Melndez-Juarbe, January 2014 Session 1: Introduction


David H. Blankfein-Tabachnick, Intellectual Property Doctrine and Midlevel Principles, 101 Cal L. Rev. 1315 (2013) Robert Merges, Foundations and Principles Redux: A Reply to Professor Blankfein-Tabachnick 101 Cal L. Rev. 1361 (2013) Madison, Michael J., (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. RECOMMENDED Seana Shiffrin, Intellecutual Property, in A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy (edited by Robert Goodin, Philip Pettit, and Thomas Pogge, Blackwell, 2007). Jeanne Frommer, Expressive Incentives in Intellectual Property, 98 VIRGINIA L REV 1745 (2012)

Session 2: Property Paradigm 1: Locke and Friends


John Locke, The Second Treatise Of Civil Government (1690) as edited in Robert Merges & Jane Ginsburg, Foundations of Intellectual Property, Foundation Press 2004. Justin Hughes, The Philosophy of Intellectual Property, 77 GEO. L. J 287 (1998) (pages 296-330) Robert Merges, Robert P., Locke for the Masses: Property

Rights and the Products of Collective Creativity (January 5, 2009) Robert Merges, Locke Remixed ; - ), UC Davis Law Review, Vol. 40, p. 101, 2007. William Fisher III, Theories of Intellectual Property, at Munzer (Ed.), New Essays In Legal And Political Theory Of Property 168 (2001) (pages 184-89) http://elplandehiram.org/documentos/cursos/ftpi/FisherIPThe ories.pdf Seana Shiffrin, Lockean Arguments for Private Intellectual Property at Munzer (Ed.), New Essays In Legal And Political Theory Of Property (2001) RECOMMENDED Nozick, Anarchy State and Utopia (1974) (pages 174-182 ) Daniel Attas, Lockean Justifications of Intellectual Property, in Axel Gorsseries, Alain Marciano and Alain Strowel, Intellectual Property And Theories Of Justice 29 (2008)

Session 3: Property Paradigm 2: Personality Rights and Malleability


JustinHughes, The Philosophy of Intellectual Property, 77 GEO. L. J 287 (1998) (pages 330-350) Roberta Rosenthal Kwall, Inspiration and Innovation: The Intrinsic Dimension of the Artistic Soul, 81 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1945 (2006) (pages 1962-1975) William Fisher III, Theories of Intellectual Property, at Munzer (Ed.), New Essays In Legal And Political Theory Of Property 168 (2001) (pages 189-92) Peter K Yu, Moral Rights 2.0 (October 15, 2010). LANDMARK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CASES AND THEIR LEGACY, pp. 13-32 Pierre Bourdieu, The Force of Law: Toward a Sociology of the Juridical Field, 38 Hst. L. J. 805 (1987) (pages 831-39);

Jeremy Waldron, From Authors to Copiers: Individual Rights and Social Values in Intellectual Property, 68 CHI. KENT. L. REV. 841 (1993) (pages 841-46, 862-68) Carol Rose, Seeing property, in Property and Persuasion (1994) (pages 285-294) Peter Jaszi, Is There Such a Thing as Postmodern Copyright?, 12 Tul. J. Tech. & Intell. Prop. 105 (2009) RECOMMENDED: Cyrill P. Rigamonti, Deconstructing Moral Rights, 47 Harv. Intl L.J. 353 (2006). Carol M.Rose, Canons of Property Talk, or, Blackstones Anxiety, 108 YALE L.J. 601, 622 (1998). Richard Stallman, Words to Avoid (or Use with Care) Because They Are Loaded or Confusing

Session 4: Property Paradigm 3: Disobedience


Pealver & Katyal, Property Outlaws 155 U Penn Law Rev 1095 (2007) (Skim Part I; read the rest) John Tehranian, Infringement Nation: Copyright Reform and the Law/Norm Gap, Utah Law Review 537 (2007). RECOMMENDED: Leslie Green, Legal Obligation and Authority, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2012 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2012/entries/legalobligation/

Session 5: Incentives Paradigm 1: Utilitarianism, Welfarism and

Consequentialism
Michael Abramowicz, A Theory of Copyrights Derivative Right and Related Doctrines, 90 Minn. L. Rev. 317 (2005) Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Foreseeability and Copyright Incentives, 122 Harv. L. Rev. 1569 (2009) (skip Parts III and V) David McGowan, Copyright Nonconsequentialism, 69 Mo. L. Rev. 1 (2004) (1-16; 28-36) Michele Boldrin and David Levine, Does Intellectual Property help Innovation?, 5 Review of Law and Economics 991 (2009) RECOMMENDED: Amartya Sen, Utilitarianism and Welfarism, 76 J. OF PHIL. 463-89 (1979). Seana Shiffrin, The Incentives Argument for Intellectual Property Protection in Axel Gorsseries, Alain Marciano and Alain Strowel, Intellectual Property And Theories Of Justice (2008).

Session 6: Incentives Paradigm 2: Private Ordering and Spillovers


James Gibson, Risk Aversion and Rights Accretion in Intellectual Property Law, 116 Yale L.J. 882 (2007) (882905; 931-51) Robert P. Merges, 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.

Brett Frischmann & Mark Lemley, Spillovers, 107 Colum L Rev 257 (2007) (Pages 257-284) Anne Barron, 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. Brett Frischmann, Spillovers Theory and Its Conceptual Boundaries, 51 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 801 (2009) RECOMMENDED: Mark Lemley, Contracting Around Liability Rules (February 7, 2012). Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 415. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1910284

Session 7: Incentives Paradigm 3: Enforcement and Intermediaries


Reinier H. Kraakman, Gatekeepers: The Anatomy of a ThirdParty Enforcement Strategy, 2 J. L. ECON. & ORG. 53 (1986) (pages 53-88) Assaf Hamdani, Gatekeeper Liability, 77 S. CAL. L. REV. 53 (2003) (pages 910-930) Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 USC sections 512(k)(1); 512(c); 512(i); 512(h); 512(f); 512(m); 512(j). Viacom v. YouTube, 676 F.3d 19 (2d Cir. 2012) Claudio Ruiz Gallardo and J. Carlos Lara Glvez, Liability of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and the exercise of freedom of expression in Latin America and Intermediaries in 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) Leaked TPP Text, http://wikileaks.org/tpp/static/pdf/Wikileakssecret-TPP-treaty-IP-chapter.pdf (SECTION I: INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS, Article QQ.I.1) Timothy Lee, Heres why Obama trade negotiators push the interests of Hollywood and drug companies, The Washington Post, November 26, 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/theswitch/wp/2013/11/26/heres-why-obama-trade-negotiatorspush-the-interests-of-hollywood-and-drug-companies/ RECOMMENDED: Margot E. Kaminski, 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: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2354324 Felix T. Wu, Collateral Censorship and the Limits of Intermediary Immunity, 87 Notre Dame L. Rev. 293 (2011).

Session 8: Commons and Peer Production


Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks (2006) (Skim pages 59-90; Read pages 133-175) Michael W. Carroll, 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 Niva Elkin-Koren, What Contracts Cannot Do: The Limits of Private Ordering in Facilitating a Creative Commons, 74 Fordham L. Rev. 375 (2005) Jonathan Zittrain, The Fourth Quadrant 78 Fordham L. Rev. __ (2010) E. Gabriella Coleman & Alex Golub, Hacker Practice: Moral

Genres and the Cultural Articulation of Liberalism, 8 Anthropological Theory 255 (2008); Julia Angwin & Geoffrey A. Fowler, Volunteers Log Off as Wikipedia Ages, http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB125893981183759969 Tom Simonite, The Decline of Wikipedia, MIT Technology Review, October 22, 2013, http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520446/thedecline-of-wikipedia/ RECOMMENDED: Michael Madison, Brett Frischmann, Katherine Strandburg, Constructing Commons in the Cultural Environment, 95 Cornell L Rev. 657 (2010)

Session 9: Speech Paradigm


Jack Balkin, The Future of Free Expression in a Digital Age, 33 Pepp. L. Rev. 427 (2009). Owen Fiss, Free Speech and Social Structure, 71 Iowa L Rev 1405 (1986). Seana Shiffrin, A Thinker-Based Approach to Freedom of Speech, 27 CONST. COMM. 283 (2011) Jennifer Rothman, Liberating Copyright: Thinking Beyond Free Speech, 95 Cornell L. Rev. 463 (2010) (Read Abstract and pages 513-28) Neil W. Netanel, Copyright in a Democratic Civil Society, 106 YALE L. J. 283 (1996) (pages 341-64) RECOMMENDED: Hiram Melndez-Juarbe, Selected Bibliography on Copyright Law and Freedom of Speech, September 27, 2013, http://derechoalderecho.org/2011/09/27/libertad-deexpresion-y-derechos-de-autor-bibliografia-selecta/ Golan v. Holder, 132 S. Ct. 873, 181 L. Ed. 2d 835 (2012)

Harper & Row v. Nation Enterprises, 471 U.S. 539 (1985)

Session 10: Fair Use and Fair Dealing


Wendy Gordon, 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. William W Fisher III, Reconstructing the Fair Use Doctrine, 101 Harv. L. Rev. 1659, 1673 (1988) as edited in Robert Merges & Jane Ginsburg, Foundations of Intellectual Property, Foundation Press 2004. Rebecca Tushnet, Copy This Essay: How Fair Use Doctrine Harms Free Speech and How Copying Serves It, 114 YALE L. J. 535 (2004) (pages 549-62) Fred Von Lohman, Fair Use as Innovation Policy, 23 BERKELEY TECH. L. J 1 (2008) The Authors Guild v Google, US Disrict Ct NY, 05 Civ. 8136 (DC), November 14, 2013. Michael Geist, 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, pages 157-186

Session 11: Taking the User Seriously: Capabilities and the User
Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice (2009) (selection) Julie Cohen, Configuring the Networked Self (2012) (Chapters 3 and 4)

Session 12: Moral Limits of markets?


Margaret Jane Radin, Market-Inalienability, 100 HARV L. REV. 1849 (1987) (pages 1852-70; 1903-21) Michael Sandel, What Money Cant Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, as edited in Rethinking Commodification: Cases and Readings in Law and Culture (Martha Ertman & Joan Williams, Eds, 2005), (pages 122-127) Debra Satz, The Moral Limits of Markets (2010) (Noxious markets) (pages 4-13) Michael Walzer, Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality (1983) (pages 6-10; 95-115) Madhavi Sunder, Property in Personhood, in Rethinking Commodification: Cases and Readings in Law and Culture (Martha Ertman & Joan Williams, Eds, 2005) Wendy J. Gordon, The Why of Markets: Fair Use and Circularity, 116 YALE L.J. POCKET PART 371 (2007), http://yalelawjournal.org/2007/4/25/gordon.html; Rebecca L. Tushnet, Economies of Desire: Fair Use and Marketplace Assumptions, 51 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 513 (2009) (pages 522-536) Diane Leenheer Zimmerman, Is There A Right To Have Something To Say? One view of the public domain, 73 Fordham L. Rev. 297 (2004) (pages 366-370)

Session 13: Technopolitics and the public/private dichotomy


Bruno Latour, Where are the Missing Masses? The Sociology

of a Few Mundane Artifacts, in Wiebe Bijker & John Law, Eds., Shaping Technology / Building Society: Studies In Sociotechnical Change 225, 227 (1997). Langdon Winner, Upon Opening the Black Box and Finding it Empty: Social Constructivism and the Philosophy of Technology (1993). Lawrence Lessig, The Law of the Horse: What Cyberlaw Might Teach, 113 Harv. L. Rev. 501 (1999) 17 USC 1201(a), (b), (c) Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Corley, 273 F.3d 429 (2d Cir. 2001)

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