| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 435 pages) |
| 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 -- Foreshadows : International News Service versus 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 |
| Summary |
The original text of the Constitution grants Congress the power to create a regime of intellectual property protection. The First Amendment, however, prohibits Congress from enacting any law that abridges the freedoms of speech and of the press. This book explores the tensions in these two conflicting provisions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
United States. Constitution. 1st Amendment.
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| SUBJECT |
Constitution (United States) fast |
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Intellectual property -- United States
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Freedom of expression -- United States
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LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
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LAW -- Intellectual Property -- General.
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Freedom of expression
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Intellectual property
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Powell, Jefferson, 1954-
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| ISBN |
9780804763271 |
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0804763275 |
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