Advanced Intellectual Property Law

William Fisher

Spring 2011

Version 2.0

User Innovation (Week 1)

• Carliss Baldwin & Eric von Hippel, "Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation," MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper # 4764-09 (2009)
• William Fisher, "The Implications for Law of User Innovation," 94 Minnesota Law Review 1417 (2010)

Traditional Knowledge (Week 2)

• Electronic Information for Librarians: Traditional Knowledge (2010)
• Anupam Chander & Madhavi Sunder, "The Romance of the Public Domain," 92 California Law Review 1331 (2004)
• Stephen Munzer and Kal Raustiala, "The Uneasy Case for Traditional Knowledge," 27 Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal 37 (2009)
• Kristen A. Carpenter, Sonia Katyal, and Angela Riley, "In Defense of Property," 118 Yale L.J. 1022 (2009)

Trade Secrets (Week 3)

• E.I. Dupont deNemours & Co. v. Christopher, 431 F.2d 1012 (5th Cir. 1970)
• Jeanne C. Fromer, Trade Secrecy in Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, forthcoming in Rochelle C. Dreyfuss and Katherine J. Strandburg, eds., The Law and Theory of Trade Secrecy (2010).
• Robert G. Bone, Trade Secrecy, Innovation, and the Requirement of Reasonable Secrecy Precautions, forthcoming in Dreyfuss and Strandburg (2010).
• Michael J. Madison, Open Secrets, forthcoming in Dreyfuss and Strandburg (2010).
• Diane L. Zimmerman, Trade Secrets and the 'Philosophy' of Copyright: A Crash of Cultures, forthcoming in Dreyfuss and Strandburg (2010).

The Right of Publicity (Week 4a)

• Midler v. Ford Motor Co., 849 F.2d 460 (9th. 1988)
• Alain Lapter, "How the Other Half Lives (Revisited): Twenty Years Since Midler v. Ford; A Global Perspective on the Right of Publicity," 15 Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal 239, 278-312 (2007)
• Michael Madow, "Private Ownership of Public Image: Popular Culture and Publicity Rights," 81 California Law Review 125 (1993)
• Alice Haemmerli, "Whose Who? The Case for a Kantian Right of Publicity," 49 Duke L.J. 383 (1999), Parts I-III

Fashion (Week 4b)

• Kal Raustiala & Christopher Sprigman, "The Piracy Paradox: Innovation and Intellectual Property in Fashion Design," 92 Va. L. Rev. 1687 (2006)
• Jeannie Suk and Scott Hemphill, "The Law, Culture, and Economics of Fashion," Stanford Law Review (2009)
• Counterfeit Chic (roam around the site for a bit)

Fair Use (Week 5)

• William Fisher, "Reconstructing the Fair Use Doctrine," 101 Harvard Law Review 1659 (1988)
• Pierre Leval, "Toward a Fair Use Standard," 103 Harvard Law Review 1105 (1990)
• Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers, "Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use" (2005)
• Paul Goldstein, "Fair Use in Context," 31 The Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts 433 (2008)
• Fred von Lohmann, "Fair Use as Innovation Policy," 23 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 829 (2008)
• Barton Beebe, "An Empirical Study of U.S. Copyright Fair Use Opinions, 1978-2005," 156 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 549 (2008)

Intellectual Property and Freedom of Speech (Week 6)

• Eldred v. Ashcroft, 537 U.S. 186 (2003), Part III of majority opinion; Breyer dissent
• Neil Netanel, Copyright's Paradox (Oxford University Press 2008), Chapters 1, 8-9 [available for purchase at the Harvard Coop]
• Hoffman v. Capital Cities/ABC, Inc., 255 F.3d 1180 (9th Cir. 2001) (reprise)
• L.L. Bean, Inc. v. Drake Publishers, Inc., 811 F.2d 26 (1st Cir. 1987)
• David McGowan, "Paradoxically Speaking" (2008)
• Rebecca Tushnet, "Copy This Essay: How Fair Use Doctrine Harms Free Speech and How Copying Serves It," 114 Yale L.J. 535, 537, 562-86 (2004)
• Anupam Chander, "Googling Freedom" (draft of August 27, 2009)

Price Discrimination and Intellectual Property (Week 7a)

• William Fisher, "When Should We Permit Differential Pricing of Information?," 55 UCLA Law Review 1 (2007)

Patent Pools and Standard-Setting Organizations (Week 7b)

• Carl Shapiro, "Navigating the Patent Thicket: Cross Licenses, Patent Pools, and Standard Setting," In Adam Jaffe et al., Innovation Policy and the Economy 1 (2001)
• Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole, "Public Policy Toward Patent Pools," in Innovation Policy and the Economy 8 (2008)
• Mark Lemley, "Ten Things to do About Patent Holdup of Standards (and One Not To)," 48 Boston College Law Review 149 (2007)

IP Intermediaries (Week 8a)

• Intellectual Ventures, HBS Case 9-710-423 (2009)

Dilution (Week 8b)

• Louis Vuitton v. Haute Diggity Dog, 507 F.3d 252 (CA4 2007)
• Barton Beebe, "The Semiotic Analysis of Trademark Law," 51 UCLA L. Rev. 621, 623-26, 684-702 (2004)

The Health Crisis in the Developing World (Week 9)

• Michael Kremer & Rachel Glennerster, Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases (2004) [available for purchase at the Harvard Coop]
• William Fisher & Talha Syed, "Global Justice in Health Care: Developing Drugs for the Developing World," 40 UC Davis Law Review 581 (2007)
• Fisher & Syed, "A Prize as a Partial Solution to the Health Crisis in the Developing World" (2009)
• The Health Impact Fund: Making New Medicines Accessible for All (2008)
• Kevin Outterson, The Legal Ecology of Resistance: The Role of Antibiotic Resistance in Pharmaceutical Innovation, Cardozo Law Review, forthcoming (2010).

Gatekeepers (Week 10)

• Reinier H. Kraakman, Gatekeepers: The Anatomy of a Third Party Enforcement Strategy, 2 J.L. Econ. & Org. 53 (1986)
• Jonathan Zittrain, "A History of Online Gatekeeping," 19 Harv. J. Law & Tech. 253(2006)
• Inwood Labs v. Ives Labs, 456 U.S. 844 (1982)
• Tiffany v. Ebay, 600 F.3d 93 (2d Cir. 2010)
• MGM v. Grokster, 545 U.S. 913 (2005)
• Viacom v. YouTube, ___ F.Supp.2d ___ (S.D.N.Y. 2010)
• Barak Y. Orbach, "Indirect Free Riding on the Wheels of Commerce: Dual-Use Technologies and Copyright Liability," 57 Emory Law Journal 409 (2008)

The Crisis in the Entertainment Industry (Week 11)

• RIAA, "Piracy: Online and On the Street" (roam around this section of the RIAA website)
• William Fisher, Promises to Keep: Technology, Law and the Future of Entertainment (Stanford University Press 2004), Chapters 1, 2, 3, 6 (available for purchase at the Harvard Coop or Amazon.com and available on reserve at the Langdell Library).
• Mark Lemley & R. Anthony Reese, "Reducing Copyright Infringement Without Restricting Innovation," 56 Stan. L. Rev. 1345, 1345-54, 1373-1426 (2004)
• MGM v. Grokster, Amicus brief of Kenneth Arrow et al.
• Salil K. Mehra, "The iPod Tax: Why the Digital Copyright System of American Law Professors' Dreams Failed in Japan," 79 U. Colo. L. Rev. 421 (2008)
• Guy Pessach, "An International-Comparative Perspective on Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing and Third Party Liability in Copyright Law: Framing the Past, Present, and Next Generations' Questions," 40 Vand. J. Transnat'l L. 87 (2007)

ExtraLegal Norms (Week 12)

• Karoun Demirjian, What is the price of plagiarism? Christian Science Monitor, May 11, 2006
• American Historical Association, Statement on Standards of Professional Conduct, #4: Plagiarism (2005)
• Malcolm Gladwell, "Something Borrowed," The New Yorker, Nov. 22, 2004
• Fauchart, Emmanuelle and Eric von Hippel, "Norms-based intellectual property systems: The case of French Chefs,'' MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper 4576-06. Organization Science, forthcoming, 2008
• Chistopher Sprigman and Dotan Oliar, "There's No Free Laugh (Anymore): The Emergence of Intellectual Property Norms and the Transformation of Stand-Up Comedy (draft 2008)
• Jacob Loshin, Secrets Revealed: How Magicians Protect Intellectual Property Without Law, in Law and Magic: A Collection of Essays (Christine A. Corcos ed., 2008), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1005564

last revised: January 24, 2011