Wendy J. Gordon

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Intellectual Property

As published in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF LEGAL STUDIES, Peter Cane and Mark Tushnet, eds., Oxford University Press, pp. 617-646, October 2003
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 06 Jun 2003
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Boston University School of Law
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intellectual property, copyright, patent, trademark, trade secrecy, rights in industrial design, rights of publicity, database rights, rights against misappropriation, "intangible" as a unifying concept, intellectual property doctrines, IP doctrines, "intellectual" as a unifying concept, similitude among patterns in IP, normative basis of IP doctrines, Lockean theories in IP, fair use, cybersquatting, rights of publicity, economics of IP, monopoly analysis, game theory perspective in IP, comparative institutional competence, justice, desert, labor theory of property, gift, gratitude, price discrimination, monopoly, deadweight loss, legal categories, taxonomy, public domain

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Excuse and Justification in the Law of Fair Use: Commodification and Market Perspectives

THE COMMODIFICATION OF INFORMATION, Niva Elkin-Koren & Neil Weinstock Netanel, eds., Kluwer Law International, 2002
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 13 Dec 2001
Wendy J. Gordon
Boston University School of Law
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1) Copyright as Tort Law's Mirror Image, and 2) of Harms and Benefits: Torts, Restitution, and Intellectual Property (Reprinted from J. Legal Stud.)

McGeorge Law Review, Vol. 34, p. 533-570, 2003
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 13 Aug 2003
Wendy J. Gordon
Boston University School of Law
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copyright, torts, restitution, intellectual property, incentives, sanctions, harm/benefit distinction, property rights, law & economics, sticks & carrots, market failure, Coasian bargaining, public goods

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Authors, Publishers, and Public Goods: Trading Gold for Dross

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, Vol. 36, p. 159, Fall 2002
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 10 Dec 2002
Wendy J. Gordon
Boston University School of Law
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Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, CTEA, copyright term, extension of copyright term, retrospective extension of copyright, non-creative physical activities, Copyright, free riding, constitutionally impermissible tradeoff, free-rider problems, deadweight loss, increased costs of creation, creative public goods, public goods, Copyright Clause, intellectual property, creative activities, restraining creativity, creative mental activity, duration of intellectual property, limits to duration of intellectual property

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The Concept of 'Harm' in Copyright

Intellectual Property and the Common Law (Cambridge University Press, Shyamkrishna Balganesh, ed., 2013, Forthcoming), Boston Univ. School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 13-28
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 28 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 29 Aug 2013
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Boston University School of Law
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copyright infringement, trespass compared with copyright, tort theory, incentives, harm, benefits, restitution, losses, foregone license fees, fair use, copyright prima facie case, counterfactual, historical-worsening, noncomparative

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The Core of Copyright: Authors, Not Publishers

Houston Law Review, Vol. 52, No. 2, 2014, p. 613, Boston Univ. School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 15-01, Boston Univ. School of Law, Law and Economics Research Paper No. 15-01
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 17 Jan 2015
Wendy J. Gordon
Boston University School of Law
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Arrow information paradox, Hohfield, IP economics, publication, dissemination, creativity, incentives, copyright constitutinality, Eldred, Golan, copyright economics, common-law copyright, copyright as tort, publication, distribution right as secondary liability, Edmund Kitch, Prospect Theory

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Dissemination Must Serve Authors: How the U.S. Supreme Court Erred

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 2013, 10(1), 1-19, Boston Univ. School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 13-33, Boston Univ. School of Law, Law and Economics Research Paper No. 13-33
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 03 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 29 Aug 2014
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Boston University School of Law
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copyright, authors, disseminators, publishers, common-law copyright, incentive-access paradigm, trade secret, secondary liability, distribution right, price as signal, Arrow paradox, self-help, arms race, Golan, comparative institutional analysis, intellectual property

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Current Patent Laws Cannot Claim the Backing of Human Rights

Chapter 9 in Intellectual Property and Human Rights: A Paradox, ed. by Willem Grosheide (Edward Elgar Ltd., 2010) , Boston Univ. School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 13-43
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 30 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 15 Oct 2013
Wendy J. Gordon
Boston University School of Law
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patent law, intellectual property, human rights, authorship, inventorship, copyright, John Locke, Internat'l Covenant on Econ., Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), developing nations, pharmaceutical patents, independent invention, Lawrence Becker, natural rights, moral entitlements, first to file

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Intellectual Property as Price Discrimination: Implications for Contract

Chicago-Kent Law Review, Vol. 73, P. 1367, 1998
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 15 Oct 1999 Last Revised: 12 Oct 2015
Wendy J. Gordon
Boston University School of Law
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intellectual property

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Copyright Owners' Putative Interests in Privacy, Reputation, and Control: A Reply to Goold

103 Va. L. Rev. Online, 2017, Forthcoming, Boston Univ. School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-11
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 26 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 16 May 2017
Wendy J. Gordon
Boston University School of Law
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Copyright,Torts,Causation,Factual causation,Privacy,Right to exclude,Reputation,Berne Convention,Improper appropriation,Substantial similarity,Fair use,Dastar,Trademark treatment of authorial source,Moral rights,Attribution,Integrity,Authorship,Exclusivity,plagiarism