A Positive Externalities Approach to Copyright Law: Theory and Application

Harrison, Jeffrey Lynch

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A Positive Externalities Approach to Copyright Law: Theory and Application

Jeffrey Lynch Harrison

University of Florida - Fredric G. Levin College of Law

Journal of Intellectual Property Law, Fall 2005

Abstract:
This Article has two goals. The first is to explain in some detail what copyright law might look like if it reflected economic reasoning. The second is to put to the test the question of whether copyright law is as far out of sync with economic guidelines as cases ranging from White-Smith Music to Eldred suggest. Although this introduction has stressed the economic irrationality of copyright law, could it actually be that within copyright decisions there is an implicit economic sensibility?

Number of Pages in PDF File: 48

Keywords: copyright, fair use, idea, expression, abstraction, efficiency

JEL Classification: K39

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Date posted: September 20, 2006

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Harrison, Jeffrey Lynch, A Positive Externalities Approach to Copyright Law: Theory and Application. Journal of Intellectual Property Law, Fall 2005. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=931642

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Jeffrey Lynch Harrison (Contact Author)

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