No law : intellectual property in the image of an absolute First Amendment / David L. Lange and H. Jefferson Powell.

Author/creator Lange, David, 1938-
Other author Powell, Jefferson, 1954-
Format Book
Publication InfoStanford, Calif. : Stanford Law Books, ©2009.
Descriptionxv, 435 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Part I. Intellectual property in America : the idea and its merits -- Unfair competition and trademarks -- Patents, copyright, and neighboring rights -- Exclusivity versus appropriation : some questions and costs -- "Exclusive rights" and the Constitution -- Part II. Intellectual productivity and freedom of expression -- Foreshadowings : International News Service v. the Associated Press -- Intellectual productivity and freedom of expression : the conditions of their coexistence -- Part III. The First Amendment in America : some chapters in a history of debate -- The origins of the First Amendment and the question of original meaning -- The Sedition Act of 1798 and the first First Amendment crisis -- Justice Holmes and the arrival of balancing -- Justice Black and the absolute First Amendment -- Part IV. The absolute First Amendment revisited : the amendment as a prohibition on power -- Constitutional absolutes in a Holmesian world -- Forward to the eighteenth century -- Part V. Summing up -- Intellectual property in the image of an absolute First Amendment.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 327-417) and index.
LCCN 2008011828
ISBN9780804745789 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0804745781 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780804745796 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN080474579X (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks KF 2979 .L37 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold