Ben Depoorter

UC Law, San Francisco

Max Radin Distinguished Professor of Law

200 McAllister Street

San Francisco, CA 94102

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1.

Duality in Property: Commons and Anticommons

International Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 25, No. 4, 2005, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 00-32, Univ. of Virginia Law & Econ Research Paper No. 00-16
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 15 Dec 2003
Francesco Parisi, Ben Depoorter and Norbert Schulz
University of Minnesota - Law School, UC Law, San Francisco and University of Wuerzburg - Department of Economics
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Fair Use and Copyright Protection: A Price Theory Explanation

International Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 453-473, May 2002, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 01-03
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 16 Feb 2001
Ben Depoorter and Francesco Parisi
UC Law, San Francisco and University of Minnesota - Law School
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Litigation, Judicial Path-Dependence, and Legal Change

European Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 20, No. 1, July 2005, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 02-26
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 09 Nov 2004
Vincy Fon, Francesco Parisi and Ben Depoorter
George Washington University - Department of Economics, University of Minnesota - Law School and UC Law, San Francisco
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The Market for Intellectual Property: The Case of Complementary Oligopoly

THE ECONOMICS OF COPYRIGHT: DEVELOPMENTS IN RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS, W. Gordon, R. Watt, eds., Elgar Publishing, 2003, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 02-19
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 19 Sep 2003
Francesco Parisi and Ben Depoorter
University of Minnesota - Law School and UC Law, San Francisco
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Law and Economics, Property Law, Antitrust Law, anticommons, intellectual property, copyright collectives, complementary oligopoly

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Fragmentation in Property: Towards a General Model

Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Vol. 158, No. 4, pp. 594-613, December 2002, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 02-03
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 14 Feb 2002
Norbert Schulz, Francesco Parisi and Ben Depoorter
University of Wuerzburg - Department of Economics, University of Minnesota - Law School and UC Law, San Francisco
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Copyright Backlash

Southern California Law Review, Vol. 84, 2011
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 09 Jun 2005 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2012
Ben Depoorter, Sven Vanneste and Alain Van Hiel
UC Law, San Francisco, Ghent University - Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology and Ghent University - Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology
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Copyright Law, Expressive law, Social Norms, Enforcement

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Fragmentation of Property Rights: A Functional Interpretation of the Law of Servitudes

Global Jurist Frontiers, Vol. 3, No. 1, March 25, 2003, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 03-24, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 284
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 22 May 2003
Ben Depoorter and Francesco Parisi
UC Law, San Francisco and University of Minnesota - Law School
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property law, servitudes, fragmentation, anticommons

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From 'Tragedy' to 'Disaster': Welfare Effects of Commons and Anticommons Dilemmas

International Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 26, pp. 104-122, 2006, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 04-23, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-26
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 09 Jun 2004
Sven Vanneste, Alain Van Hiel, Francesco Parisi and Ben Depoorter
Ghent University - Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, Ghent University - Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, University of Minnesota - Law School and UC Law, San Francisco
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Property Law

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Technology and Uncertainty: The Shaping Effect on Copyright Law

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 157, 2009, University of Miami Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2009-21
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 17 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2012
Ben Depoorter
UC Law, San Francisco
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copyright law, timing, technology, social norms

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The Modernization of European Antitrust Enforcement: The Economics of Regulatory Competition

George Mason Law Review, Vol. 13, No. 2, 2005, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 05-09
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 06 Apr 2005
Ben Depoorter and Francesco Parisi
UC Law, San Francisco and University of Minnesota - Law School
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Regulatory competition, antitrust, european competition law

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Simultaneous and Sequential Anticommons

European Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 17, No. 2, March 2004, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 03-11, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 279
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 20 Mar 2003
Francesco Parisi, Norbert Schulz and Ben Depoorter
University of Minnesota - Law School, University of Wuerzburg - Department of Economics and UC Law, San Francisco
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Whistle Blowing

Supreme Court Economic Review, Vol. 13, 2005, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 04-56
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 09 Dec 2004
Ben Depoorter and Jef De Mot
UC Law, San Francisco and Ghent University - Faculty of Law
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whistle blowing, False Claims Act, law and economics

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Putting Humpty Dumpty Back Together: Experimental Evidence of Anticommons Tragedies

3 Journal of Law, Economics & Policy 1 (2006).
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 20 Sep 2004 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2014
Ben Depoorter and Sven Vanneste
UC Law, San Francisco and Ghent University - Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology
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Anticommons, property regimes, law and economics

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Norms and Enforcement: The Case Against Copyright Litigation

Oregon Law Review, Vol. 84, No. 4, p. 1127, 2006
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 20 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2012
Ben Depoorter and Sven Vanneste
UC Law, San Francisco and Ghent University - Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology
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copyright law, litigation, P2P, file sharing

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The Several Lives of Mickey Mouse: The Expanding Boundaries of Intellectual Property Law

Virginia Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 9, No. 4, Spring 2004
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 02 Sep 2004
Ben Depoorter
UC Law, San Francisco
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intellectual property rights, legal evolution, complementary goods

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Never Two Without Three: Commons, Anticommons and Semicommons

University of Miami Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2008-36
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 17 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2012
Enrico Bertacchini, Jef De Mot and Ben Depoorter
University of Turin - Department of Economics, Ghent University - Faculty of Law and UC Law, San Francisco
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commons, anticommons, semicommons, property

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Horizontal Political Externalities: The Supply and Demand of Disaster Management

Duke Law Journal, Vol. 56, p. 101, 2006, University of Miami Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2007-03
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 20 Oct 2006
Ben Depoorter
UC Law, San Francisco
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political externalities, disaster management, Katrina

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Fair Trespass

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 111, No. 5, 2011
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 13 Jul 2011
Ben Depoorter
UC Law, San Francisco
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property law, trespass, fair use

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Using Fee Shifting to Promote Fair Use and Fair Licensing

UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2159325, California Law Review, Vol. 102, 2014
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 10 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 07 Mar 2019
Peter S. Menell and Ben Depoorter
UC Berkeley School of Law and UC Law, San Francisco
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copyright, fair use, mechanism design, fee shifting

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The Upside of Losing

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 113, p. 817, 2013, UC Hastings Research Paper No. 37
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 12 May 2013
Ben Depoorter
UC Law, San Francisco
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Price Discrimination & Intellectual Property

UC Hastings Research Paper No. 303, Boston Univ. School of Law, Law and Economics Research Paper No. 18-26
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 23 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2018
Ben Depoorter and Michael J. Meurer
UC Law, San Francisco and Boston University - School of Law
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Patents, copyright, intellectual property, price discrimination, antitrust, arbitrage, metering, sorting

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Copyright Enforcement in the Digital Age: When the Remedy is the Wrong

UCLA Law Review, Vol. 66, 2019, UC Hastings Research Paper No. 320
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 19 Apr 2019
Ben Depoorter
UC Law, San Francisco
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copyright, statutory damages, enforcement

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Law in the Shadow of Bargaining: The Feedback Effect of Civil Settlements

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 95, 2010, University of Miami Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2010-14
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 16 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2012
Ben Depoorter
UC Law, San Francisco
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settlement, litigation, torts

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Copyright False Positives

89 Notre Dame L. Rev. 319, UC Hastings Research Paper No. 74
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 10 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 07 Jan 2014
Ben Depoorter and Robert Walker
UC Law, San Francisco and UC Law, San Francisco
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copyright law, enforcement, false positives, automation, bots, economics, litigation costs

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How Law Frames Moral Intuitions: The Expressive Effect of Specific Performance

Arizona Law Review, Vol. 54, No. 1, 2012
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 13 May 2013
Ben Depoorter and Stephan Tontrup
UC Law, San Francisco and New York University School of Law
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contract remedies, specific performance, default rules, framing

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The Moral-Hazard Effect of Liquidated Damages: An Experiment on Contract Remedies

Journal Of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) (Forthcoming), UC Hastings Research Paper No. 224
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 30 Nov 2016
Ben Depoorter, Sven Hoeppner and Lars Freund
UC Law, San Francisco, Ghent University and Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
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Technology & Torts: A Theory of Memory Costs, Nondurable Precautions and Interference Effects

University of Miami Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2008-37
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 17 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2012
Ben Depoorter and Jef De Mot
UC Law, San Francisco and Ghent University - Faculty of Law
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tort law, tort award, precaution, technology

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Copyright Alert Enforcement: Six Strikes and Privacy Harms

39 Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts 233 (2015), UC Hastings Research Paper No. 165
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 06 Feb 2016
Ben Depoorter and Alain Van Hiel
UC Law, San Francisco and Ghent University - Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology
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copyright, empirical study

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Tort Law and Probabilistic Litigation: How to Apply Multipliers to Address the Problem of Negative Value Suits

International Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 30, No. 1, 2010
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 17 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2012
Jef De Mot and Ben Depoorter
Ghent University - Faculty of Law and UC Law, San Francisco
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litigation, procedure, tort law

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Unavoidable Aesthetic Judgments in Copyright Law: A Community of Practice Standard

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Unavoidable Aesthetic Judgments in Copyright Law: A Community of Practice Standard

109 Nw. U. L. Rev. 343 (2015), UC Hastings Research Paper No. 164
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 08 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2016
Ben Depoorter and Robert Walker
UC Law, San Francisco and UC Law, San Francisco
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copyright, art

Unavoidable Aesthetic Judgments in Copyright Law: A Community of Practice Standard

Northwestern University Law Review, Rev. 343 (2014), UC Hastings Research Paper No. 164
Posted: 05 Sep 2015
Robert Walker and Ben Depoorter
UC Law, San Francisco and UC Law, San Francisco

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copyright, intellectual property, art, aesthetics, art history, theory, derivative works, useful articles, fair use

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Are Elites Really Less Fair-Minded?

UC Hastings Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 18 Feb 2021
Ben Depoorter, Philip Grech, Jessica Halten, Sven Hoeppner, Barbara Ikica, Simon Jantschgi, Heinrich H. Nax, Jonathan Newton, Bary Pradelski, Adrian Soos and Stefan Wehrli
UC Law, San Francisco, ETH Zürich, Yale School of Management, Ghent University, University of Zurich, University of Oxford - Department of Economics, ETH Zürich, Kyoto University - Institute of Economic Research, CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes, affiliation not provided to SSRN and ETH Zürich
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Class differences, Confounds, Critical replication

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Who's Afraid of 3D Printing?

Boston University journal of Science and Technology Law, Vol. 25, 2019, UC Hastings Research Paper No. 318
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 03 Apr 2019
Ben Depoorter and Bregt Raus
UC Law, San Francisco and University of Chicago
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3D printing, intellectual property, piracy

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The Multiplication Effect of Legal Insurance

13 New York University Journal of Law and Business 1 (2016), UC Hastings Research Paper No. 225
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 16 Dec 2016
Ben Depoorter, Jef P. B. De Mot and Michael G. Faure
UC Law, San Francisco, Ghent University and University of Maastricht - Faculty of Law, Metro
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If You Build It, They will Come: The Promises and Pitfalls of a Copyright Small Claims Process

Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Vol. 33, 2018, UC Hastings Research Paper No. 319
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 03 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2019
Ben Depoorter
UC Law, San Francisco
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copyright, piracy, small claims, litigation, negative value suits

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Aspirational Laws in Action: A Field Experiment

Forthcoming in Law and Social Inquiry 2023., NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 23-34, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 23-52
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 03 May 2023 Last Revised: 19 Sep 2023
Ben Depoorter and Stephan Tontrup
UC Law, San Francisco and New York University School of Law
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Aspirational Laws; Enforcement, Psychological Infringement Costs; Self-fullfing; Field Experiment

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Filtering Tort Accidents

22(2) AMERICAN LAW & ECONOMICS REVIEW 1 (2020), UC Hastings Research Paper No. 400
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 20 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 20 Jan 2021
Jef De Mot, Ben Depoorter and Thomas J. Miceli
Ghent University - Faculty of Law, UC Law, San Francisco and University of Connecticut - Department of Economics
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tort law, deterrence, filtering

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The Cross-Atlantic Law and Economics Divide: A Dissent

University of Illinois Law Review, Vol. 2011, No. 5
Posted: 17 Oct 2012
Ben Depoorter and Jef P. B. De Mot
UC Law, San Francisco and Ghent University

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Law and economics, Europe, US, law schools, law journals