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Subtitle: intellectual property in the image of an absolute First Amendment
By: David L. Lange and H. Jefferson Powell.
Contributors: Powell, Jefferson, 1954-
Publisher: Stanford Law Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 435
ISBN-13: 9780804745789; 9780804745796
Subjects: United States; Intellectual property -- United States; Freedom of expression -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Intellectual property in America : the idea and its merits; title: Unfair competition and trademarks; title: Patents, copyright and neighboring rights; title: Exclusivity versus appropriation : some questions and costs; title: "Exclusive rights" and the Constitution; title: Part II. Intellectual productivity and freedom of expression; title: Foreshadows : International News Service versus the Associated Press; title: Intellectual productivity and freedom of expression : the conditions of their coexistence; title: Part III. The First Amendment in America : some chapters in a history of debate; title: The origins of the First Amendment and the question of original meaning; title: The Sedition Act of 1798 and the first First Amendment crisis; title: Justice Holmes and the arrival of balancing; title: Justice Black and the absolute First Amendment; title: Part IV. The absolute First Amendment revisited : the amendment as a prohibition on power; title: Constitutional absolutes in a Holmesian world; title: Forward to the eighteenth century; title: Part V. Summing up; title: Intellectual property in the image of an absolute First Amendment.