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Honest Copying Practices
(Notre Dame Law Review, 2017)
One of intellectual property theory’s operating assumptions is that creating is hard while copying is easy. But it is not always so. Copies, though outwardly identical, can come from different processes, from cheap digital ...
Music As a Matter of Law
(Harvard Law Review, 2018)
What is a musical work? Philosophers debate it, but for judges the answer has long been simple: music means melody. Though few recognize it today, that answer goes all the way back to the birth of music copyright litigation ...
Reinvention
(Notre Dame Law Review, 2017)
It is axiomatic that once an invention has been patented, it cannot be patented again. This aligns with the quid pro quo theory of patents — the public would receive nothing new in exchange for the second patent. Enforcing ...