Property outlaws : how squatters, pirates, and protesters improve the law of ownership / Eduardo Moisés Peñalver, Sonia K. Katyal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peñalver, Eduardo M., 1973- author.

Katyal, Sonia K., 1972- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Right of property.

Intellectual property.

Civil disobedience.

Rule of law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, [Connecticut] ; London, [England] : Yale University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Property Outlaws puts forth the intriguingly counterintuitive proposition that, in the case of both tangible and intellectual property law, disobedience can often lead to an improvement in legal regulation. The authors argue that in property law there is a tension between the competing demands of stability and dynamism, but its tendency is to become static and fall out of step with the needs of society. The authors employ wide-ranging examples of the behaviors of "property outlaws"-the trespasser, squatter, pirate, or file-sharer-to show how specific behaviors have induced legal innovation. They also delineate the similarities between the actions of property outlaws in the spheres of tangible and intellectual property. An important conclusion of the book is that a dynamic between the activities of "property outlaws" and legal innovation should be cultivated in order to maintain this avenue of legal reform.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. Why Property Outlaws?

Chapter 2. Property And Intellectual Property

Chapter 3. Acquisitive Outlaws: The Pioneers

Chapter 4. Expressive Outlaws: Civil Rights Sit-Ins

Chapter 5. Property Outlaws And Property Altlaws

Chapter 6. Acquisitive Altlaws: The Treatment Action Campaign, Patents, And Public Health

Chapter 7. Expressive Altlaws: Copyright And The New Liberation Of Information

Chapter 8. Two Perspectives On Property Outlaws

Chapter 9. Responding To Property Outlaws

Chapter 10. The Informational Value Of Intellectual Property Disobedience

Chapter 11. Responding To Acquisitive Altlaws

Chapter 12. Responding To Expressive Altlaws

Conclusion

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-299-46375-4

0-300-16123-9

OCLC:

841171080