The big steal : ideology, interest, and the undoing of intellectual property / Jonathan M. Barnett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnett, Jonathan M., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectual property--United States.

Intellectual property.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

In 'The Big Steal', Jonathan Barnett documents the unusual confluence of ideological commitments and business interests behind the across-the-board dilution of legal protections for inventors and artists under U.S. patent and copyright law. Concurrently with the rise of the digital economy and platform-based markets, the Supreme Court, Congress, and antitrust regulators significantly weakened legal protections against the unauthorized use of technological inventions and creative works. Under the popular slogan that 'information wants to be free,' significant portions of the scholarly and tech communities advocated and welcomed the erosion of property rights in knowledge markets. This policy shift often relied on incomplete or premature findings that mischaracterized the impact of robust intellectual property rights on innovation markets.

Contents:

Cover

The Big Steal

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

Organizational Note

Introduction: The Price of Free

1. Making and Unmaking Intellectual Property Rights

2. The Accidental Alliance

3. The Political Economy of Copyright Law

4. The Rise of Unfair Use

5. How Courts Rewrote the DMCA

6. The Hesitant Return of Reason

7. The Political Economy of Patent Law

8. The Patent Litigation Explosion and Other Patent Horribles

9. Patent Trolls and the Demise of the Injunction

10. The Patent Holdup Conjecture

11. China and the Accidental Alliance

12. How Free Stuff Distorts Innovation and Competition

13. How Weak IP Rights Shield Incumbents and Impede Entry

14. Free Stuff Gets Dangerous

15. Free Stuff and the Decline of the Free Press

16. The Inevitability of Property Rights

17. Reinvigorating IP Rights and the Innovation Ecosystem

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 2, 2024).

ISBN:

0-19-762955-5

0-19-762953-9

OCLC:

1454052047