Foundations of IP, Ottawa 2015

Readings with Links

Session 1: Introduction, 5 Jan
Lemley, Mark A., IP in a World Without Scarcity (March 24, 2014). Available
at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2413974
Deven R. Desai, The New Steam: On Digitization, Decentralization, and
Disruption (August 1, 2014). Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 65, No. 6, 2014.
Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2508712
Kenneth Einar Himma, Information and the Limits of Unlimited Supply
(October 13, 2014). Available at
SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2509175 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssr
n.2509175
RECOMMENDED
Seana Shiffrin, Intellecutual Property, in A Companion to Contemporary
Political Philosophy (edited by Robert Goodin, Philip Pettit, and Thomas
Pogge, Blackwell, 2007).
Jeanne Frommer, Expressive Incentives in Intellectual Property, 98
VIRGINIA L REV 1745 (2012)
David H. Blankfein-Tabachnick, Intellectual Property Doctrine and
Midlevel Principles, 101 Cal L. Rev. 1315 (2013)
Robert Merges, Foundations and Principles Redux: A Reply to Professor
Blankfein-Tabachnick 101 Cal L. Rev. 1361 (2013)
Madison, Michael J., (Draft) IP Things as Boundary Objects: The Case of the
Copyright Work (March 31, 2013). U. of Pittsburgh Legal Studies Research
Paper No. 2013-12.
Session 2: Property Paradigm 1: Locke and Friends, 6 Jan
John Locke, The Second Treatise Of Civil Government (1690) as edited in
Robert Merges & Jane Ginsburg, Foundations of Intellectual Property,
Foundation Press 2004.
Justin Hughes, The Philosophy of Intellectual Property, 77 GEO. L. J 287
(1998) (pages 296-330)
Robert Merges, Locke for the Masses: Property Rights and the Products of
Collective Creativity (January 5, 2009)
Robert Merges, Locke Remixed ; - ), UC Davis Law Review, Vol. 40, p. 101,
2007.
William Fisher III, Theories of Intellectual Property, at Munzer (Ed.), New
Essays In Legal And Political Theory Of Property 168 (2001) (pages 184-89)
Seana Shiffrin, Lockean Arguments for Private Intellectual Property at
Munzer (Ed.), New Essays In Legal And Political Theory Of Property (2001)
RECOMMENDED
Nozick, Anarchy State and Utopia (1974) (pages 174-182 )
Daniel Attas, Lockean Justifications of Intellectual Property, in Axel
Gorsseries, Alain Marciano and Alain Strowel, Intellectual Property And
Theories Of Justice 29 (2008)

Session 3: Property Paradigm 2: Personality Rights, Malleability and

Disobedience, 7 Jan
Justin Hughes, The Philosophy of Intellectual Property, 77 GEO. L. J 287
(1998) (pages 330-350)
Roberta Rosenthal Kwall, Inspiration and Innovation: The Intrinsic
Dimension of the Artistic Soul, 81 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1945 (2006) (pages
1962-1975)
Peter K Yu, Moral Rights 2.0 (October 15, 2010). LANDMARK
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CASES AND THEIR LEGACY, pp. 13-32
Pealver & Katyal, Property Outlaws 155 U Penn Law Rev 1095
(2007) (1128-1140)
John Tehranian, Infringement Nation: Copyright Reform and the Law/Norm
Gap, Utah Law Review 537 (2007).
RECOMMENDED:
(a) Moral Rights and Authorship
William Fisher III, Theories of Intellectual Property, at Munzer (Ed.), New
Essays In Legal And Political Theory Of Property 168 (2001) (pages 189-92)
Cyrill P. Rigamonti, Deconstructing Moral Rights, 47 Harv. Intl L.J. 353
(2006).
Carol M.Rose, Canons of Property Talk, or, Blackstones Anxiety, 108 YALE
L.J. 601, 622 (1998).
(b) Malleability
Richard Stallman, Words to Avoid (or Use with Care) Because They Are
Loaded or Confusing
Pierre Bourdieu, The Force of Law: Toward a Sociology of the Juridical
Field, 38 Hst. L. J. 805 (1987) (pages 831-39)
Jeremy Waldron, From Authors to Copiers: Individual Rights and Social
Values in Intellectual Property, 68 CHI. KENT. L. REV. 841 (1993) (pages
841-46, 862-68)
Carol Rose, Seeing property, in Property and Persuasion (1994) (pages
285-294)
Peter Jaszi, Is There Such a Thing as Postmodern Copyright?, 12 Tul. J. Tech.
& Intell. Prop. 105 (2009)
(c) Disobedience
Leslie Green, Legal Obligation and Authority, The Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy (Winter 2012 Edition), Edward N. Zalta
(ed.), http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2012/entries/legal-obligation/
Session 4: Incentives Paradigm 1: Utilitarianism, Welfarism and
Consequentialism, 8 Jan
Michael Abramowicz, A Theory of Copyrights Derivative Right and Related
Doctrines, 90 Minn. L. Rev. 317, 325-326; 342-357 (2005)
Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Foreseeability and Copyright Incentives, 122
Harv. L. Rev. 1569 (2009) (skip Parts III and V)
David McGowan, Copyright Nonconsequentialism, 69 Mo. L. Rev. 1 (2004)
(1-16; 28-36)

Julie Cohen, Post-Industrial Property (August 7, 2014). Available at

SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2478051
RECOMMENDED:
Amartya Sen, Utilitarianism and Welfarism, 76 J. OF PHIL. 463-89 (1979).
Seana Shiffrin, The Incentives Argument for Intellectual Property Protection
in Axel Gorsseries, Alain Marciano and Alain Strowel, Intellectual Property
And Theories Of Justice (2008).
Glynn S. Lunney, Empirical Copyright: A Case Study of File Sharing and
Music Output (December 28, 2013)
Michele Boldrin and David Levine, Does Intellectual Property help
Innovation?, 5 Review of Law and Economics 991 (2009)
Andreas Rahmatian, A Fundamental Critique of the Law-and-Economics
Analysis of Intellectual Property Rights (May 30, 2013). International
Intellectual Property Scholars Series, 17 Marquette Intellectual Property L.
Rev. 191 (2013). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2388136
Robert Merges, Economics of Intellectual Property Law (March 20, 2014).
Oxford Handbook of Law and Economics, Francesco Parisi, eds., Forthcoming.
Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2412251
Alessio M. Pacces and Louis T. Visscher, Methodology of Law and
Economics (2011). Bart van Klink and Sanne Taekema (Eds.), Law and
Method. Interdisciplinary research into Law (Series Politika, nr 4), Tbingen:
Mohr Siebeck 2011, pp. 85-107. Available at
SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2259058

Session 5: Incentives Paradigm 2: Private Ordering and Spillovers, 9 Jan
James Gibson, Risk Aversion and Rights Accretion in Intellectual Property
Law, 116 Yale L.J. 882 (2007) (882-905; 931-51)
Robert P. Merges, Contracting Into Liability Rules: Intellectual Property
Rights and Collective Rights Organizations, 84 Cal. L. Rev. 1293 (1996) as
edited in Robert Merges & Jane Ginsburg, Foundations of Intellectual
Property, Foundation Press 2004.
Brett Frischmann & Mark Lemley, Spillovers, 107 Colum L Rev 257
(2007) (Pages 257-284)
Anne Barron, Copyright Infringement, 'Free-Riding' and the Lifeworld
(December 8, 2009) in COPYRIGHT AND PIRACY: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY
CRITIQUE, Lionel Bently, Jennifer Davis and Jane Ginsburg, eds., Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Brett Frischmann, Spillovers Theory and Its Conceptual Boundaries, 51
Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 801 (2009)
RECOMMENDED
Mark Lemley, Contracting Around Liability Rules (February 7, 2012).
Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 415. Available at
SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1910284
Session 6: Incentive Paradigm 3: The Empirical Turn, 12 Jan
Christopher Buccafusco, Zachary Burns and Jeanne Fromer,
Christopher Sprigman, Experimental Tests of Intellectual Property Laws

Creativity Thresholds (June 1, 2014). Texas Law Review, Vol. 93, p. 1921,
2014; Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2443667 (Introduction
and pages 1932-74, 1977-80)
Christopher J. Buccafusco and Christopher Sprigman, The Creativity
Effect (July 22, 2010). University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 78, p. 31, 2011.
Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1647009
Joseph Fishman, Creating Around Copyright (July 13, 2014). Harvard Law
Review, Vol. 128, Forthcoming. Available at
SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2465590 (pages 2-8; 24-55)
RECOMMENDED
Empirical Studies Database, Center for Empirical Studies of Intellectual
Property (CESIP), Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent College of
Law, http://www.kentlaw.edu/cesip/
Session 7: Incentives Paradigm 4: Enforcement and Intermediaries, 13 Jan
Reinier H. Kraakman, Gatekeepers: The Anatomy of a Third-Party
Enforcement Strategy, 2 J. L. ECON. & ORG. 53 (1986) (pages 53-88)
Assaf Hamdani, Gatekeeper Liability, 77 S. CAL. L. REV. 53 (2003) (pages
910-930)
Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 USC sections 512(k)(1); 512(c);
512(i); 512(h); 512(f); 512(m); 512(j).
Claudio Ruiz Gallardo and J. Carlos Lara Glvez, Liability of Internet
Service Providers (ISPs) and the exercise of freedom of expression in Latin
America and Intermediaries in Towards an Internet Free of Censorship:
Proposals for Latin America (Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression
and Access to Information) (2012) (pages 13-34)
Leaked TPP Text, Oct. 16, 2014, Addendum III Intellectual Property
[Rights] Chapter, Non-Paper on Internet Service Provider Safe
Harbors, https://wikileaks.org/tpp-ip2/#addendum_iii
RECOMMENDED:
Margot E. Kaminski, The Capture of International Intellectual Property Law
through the U.S. Trade Regime Kaminski, (November 14, 2013). Southern
California Law Review, 2014 Forthcoming. Available at
SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2354324
Felix T. Wu, Collateral Censorship and the Limits of Intermediary Immunity,
87 Notre Dame L. Rev. 293 (2011).
Timothy Lee, Heres why Obama trade negotiators push the interests of
Hollywood and drug companies, The Washington Post, November 26,
2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/theswitch/wp/2013/11/26/heres-why-obama-trade-negotiators-push-theinterests-of-hollywood-and-drug-companies/
Session 8: Commons and Peer Production, 14 Jan
Frishmann, Madison & Strandburg, Governing the Knowledge
Commons in Governing the Knowledge Commons (Oxford 2014) (pages 139)

Charles M. Schweik, Toward the Comparison of Open Source Commons

Institutions in Governing the Knowledge Commons (Oxford 2014) (pages 139)
E. Gabriella Coleman & Alex Golub, Hacker Practice: Moral Genres and the
Cultural Articulation of Liberalism, 8 Anthropological Theory 255 (2008)
Michael W. Carroll, Creative Commons as Conversational Copyright
Intellectual Property and Information Wealth: Issues and Practices in the
Digital Age (2006 ed). Ed. Peter K. Yu. Praeger, 2006. 445-461
Niva Elkin-Koren, What Contracts Cannot Do: The Limits of Private
Ordering in Facilitating a Creative Commons, 74 Fordham L. Rev. 375 (2005)
RECOMMENDED:
Michael Madison, Brett Frischmann, Katherine Strandburg, Constructing
Commons in the Cultural Environment, 95 Cornell L Rev. 657 (2010)
Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks (2006) (Skim pages 59-90; Read
pages 133-175)
Julia Angwin & Geoffrey A. Fowler, Volunteers Log Off as Wikipedia
Ages, http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB125893981183759969
Tom Simonite, The Decline of Wikipedia, MIT Technology Review, October
22, 2013, http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520446/thedecline-of-wikipedia/
Jonathan Zittrain, The Fourth Quadrant 78 Fordham L. Rev. __ (2010)
Session 9: Speech Paradigm, 15 Jan

Jack Balkin, The Future of Free Expression in a Digital Age, 33 Pepp. L. Rev.
427 (2009).
Owen Fiss, Free Speech and Social Structure, 71 Iowa L Rev 1405 (1986).
Seana Shiffrin, A Thinker-Based Approach to Freedom of Speech, 27 CONST.
COMM. 283 (2011)
Jennifer Rothman, Liberating Copyright: Thinking Beyond Free Speech, 95
Cornell L. Rev. 463 (2010) (Read Abstract and pages 513-28)
Neil W. Netanel, Copyright in a Democratic Civil Society, 106 YALE L. J. 283
(1996) (pages 341-64)
RECOMMENDED:
Hiram Melndez-Juarbe, Selected Bibliography on Copyright Law and
Freedom of Speech, September 27,
2013, http://derechoalderecho.org/2011/09/27/libertad-de-expresion-yderechos-de-autor-bibliografia-selecta/
Golan v. Holder, 132 S. Ct. 873, 181 L. Ed. 2d 835 (2012)
Harper & Row v. Nation Enterprises, 471 U.S. 539 (1985)
Session 10: Fair Use and Fair Dealing, 16 Jan
Wendy Gordon, Fair Use as market Failure: A Structural and Economic
Analysis of the Betamax Case and Its Predecessors as edited in Robert
Merges & Jane Ginsburg, Foundations of Intellectual Property, Foundation
Press 2004.

Rebecca Tushnet, Copy This Essay: How Fair Use Doctrine Harms Free
Speech and How Copying Serves It, 114 YALE L. J. 535 (2004) (pages 54962)
Fred Von Lohman, Fair Use as Innovation Policy, 23 BERKELEY TECH. L. J 1
(2008)
Niva Elkin-Koren and Orit Fischman Afori, Taking Users' Rights to the
Next Level: A Pragmatist Approach to Fair Use (August 20, 2014). Cardozo
Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, Vol. 33, 2014 Forthcoming. Available at
SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2483939
Michael Geist, Fairness Found: How Canada Quietly Shifted from Fair
Dealing to Fair Use, in The Copyright Pentalogy: How the supreme Court of
Canada shook the foundations of Canadian Copyright law, pages 157-186
RECOMMENDED
The Authors Guild v Google, US Disrict Ct NY, 05 Civ. 8136 (DC), November
14, 2013.
William W Fisher III, Reconstructing the Fair Use Doctrine, 101 Harv. L.
Rev. 1659, 1673 (1988) as edited in Robert Merges & Jane Ginsburg,
Foundations of Intellectual Property, Foundation Press 2004.
Yu, Peter K., The Confuzzling Rhetoric Against New Copyright Exceptions
(July 15, 2014). Kritika, Vol. 1, 2014. Available at
SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2466544
Session 11: Taking the User Seriously: Capabilities and the User / Brief
Presentations: Final Essays, 19 Jan
Julie Cohen, Configuring the Networked Self (2012) (Chapters 3 and 4)
Yu, Peter K., Can the Canadian UGC Exception Be Transplanted Abroad?
(March 7, 2014). Intellectual Property Journal, Vol. 27, 2014. Available at
SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2405821
RECOMMENDED
Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice (2009) (selection)
Session 12: Moral Limits of markets?, 20 Jan
Margaret Jane Radin, Market-Inalienability, 100 HARV L. REV. 1849
(1987) (pages 1852-70; 1903-21)
Michael Sandel, What Money Cant Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, as
edited in Rethinking Commodification: Cases and Readings in Law and
Culture (Martha Ertman & Joan Williams, Eds, 2005), (pages 122-127)
Debra Satz, The Moral Limits of Markets (2010) (Noxious markets) (pages
4-13)
Madhavi Sunder, Property in Personhood, in Rethinking Commodification:
Cases and Readings in Law and Culture (Martha Ertman & Joan Williams, Eds,
2005)
Wendy J. Gordon, The Why of Markets: Fair Use and Circularity, 116 YALE
L.J. POCKET PART 371
(2007), http://yalelawjournal.org/2007/4/25/gordon.html;
Rebecca L. Tushnet, Economies of Desire: Fair Use and Marketplace
Assumptions, 51 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 513 (2009) (pages 522-536)

Diane Leenheer Zimmerman, Is There A Right To Have Something To Say?

One view of the public domain, 73 Fordham L. Rev. 297 (2004) (pages 366370)
RECOMMENDED
Michael Walzer, Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality
(1983) (pages 6-10; 95-115)
Johnson, Eric E., The Economics and Sociality of Sharing Intellectual
Property (December 3, 2014). Boston University Law Review, Vol. 94, No. 6,
2014. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2533771

Session 13: Technopolitics and the public/private dichotomy, 21 Jan
Lawrence Lessig, The Law of the Horse: What Cyberlaw Might Teach, 113
Harv. L. Rev. 501 (1999)
Langdon Winner, Upon Opening the Black Box and Finding it Empty: Social
Constructivism and the Philosophy of Technology (1993).
Annemarie Bridy, Coding Creativity: Copyright and the Artificially
Intelligent Author (July 18, 2011). Stanford Technology Law Review, Vol. 5,
pp. 1-28 (Spring 2012).; U. of Pittsburgh Legal Studies Research Paper No.
2011-25. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1888622
7 USC 1201(a), (b), (c)
Canada Copyright Act, Sections 41 and 41.1
Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Corley, 273 F.3d 429 (2d Cir. 2001)
RECOMMENDED
Bruno Latour, Where are the Missing Masses? The Sociology of a Few
Mundane Artifacts, in Wiebe Bijker & John Law, Eds., Shaping Technology /
Building Society: Studies In Sociotechnical Change 225, 227 (1997).