The Merits of Ownership; or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Intellectual Property Law

Ghosh, Shubha

doi:10.2139/ssrn.304480

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The Merits of Ownership; or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Intellectual Property Law

Shubha Ghosh

University of Wisconsin Law School

Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Forthcoming

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This review essay of Lawrence Lessig's The Future of Ideas and Siva Vaidhyanathan's Copyrights and Copywrongs highlights the common themes in the two books and demonstrates how they represent together a current critique of copyright law in specific and intellectual property more broadly. The author summarizes the principal arguments in the books, situates them in post-Cold War politics, and suggests that both books ignore the important questions of distributive justice raised by intellectual property. After laying out his general critique of the two books, the author turns to a point by point analysis of Professor Lessig's reform proposals.

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Date posted: March 19, 2002

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Ghosh, Shubha , The Merits of Ownership; or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Intellectual Property Law. Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Forthcoming. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=304480 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.304480

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