Re: Articles, Books Against Copyright, Trademark, Patent

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>I have a student looking for articles or books arguing against
>copyright, trademark, and patent protection. We have searched
>Legal-Trac and our own catalog without much success. Are there
>specific legal scholars that advocate a public domain approach?
>Any leads appreciated.
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While I would not in any sense characterize their work as being "against" copyright, etc., the writings of L. Ray Patterson and Wendy Gordon, Jane Ginsburg (to some extent), Paula Samuelson (with respect to some aspects of computer software protection), among others, suggest a more inclusive "public domain" and a greater willingness to limit the scope of protection than do a number of other scholars. Again, I do not want to paint with too broad a brush but you may find a public domain "tilt" in some of these works. There are also a few, primarily CLS oriented writers and not necessarily intellectual property people as such, who question the social value of intellectual property protection (e.h., Coombes) Sheldon W. Halpern
Professor of Law
The Ohio State University College of Law halpern.1[_at_]osu.edu Received on Sat Dec 03 1994 - 01:12:28 GMT