This is a rich and exciting volume that takes on board the expansive trajectory of intellectual property protection and explores through many prisms, within the boundaries given, challenges and solutions for information-society innovation.
Professor Eleanor M. Fox, Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation, New York University School of Law
Working within the Boundariesexamines a broad spectrum of market and nonmarket private ordering tools, ranging from patent pools and collective licensing to creative commons and open science publishing, for managing our current regime of broad intellectual property rights. As the eminent contributors to this volume elucidate in rich, nuanced, granular detail, those tools are designed to overcome the obstacles that broad intellectual property rights can pose to public access to creative expression and inventions and the ability of creators and inventors to build upon existing works - and are only partly successful in achieving those goals. This book presents an invaluable interdisciplinary analysis of how copyright and patent actually operate on the ground in today's knowledge economy.
Neil W. Netanel, Pete Kameron Endowed Chair in Law, UCLA School of Law