Advanced Intellectual Property Law

William Fisher

Spring 2010

Version 2.0

A Taxonomy of Theories of Intellectual Property (January 25)

• Introductory lecture -- no reading assignment

Traditional Knowledge (January 26, 27)

• 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)

User Innovation (February 1, 2)

• Eric von Hippel, Democratizing Innovation (MIT Press 2005), chapters 1, 2, 8
• William Fisher, "The Implications for Law of User Innovation," forthcoming Minnesota Law Review (2010)
• 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)

Guest Speaker (February 2): Professor Eric von Hippel, Sloan School of Management and Engineering Systems Division, MIT (biography)

Business Method Patents (February 3)

• In re Bilski, 545 F.3d 943 (CAFC en banc 2008)
• Bilski v. Kappos -- Timeline
• Bilski v. Kappos -- Oral Argument
• Bilski Briefs (spend an hour or two reading enough of these to get a sense of the various policy and doctrinal arguments)

Trade Secrets (February 8, 9)

• 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 (February 10, 15)

• Midler v. Ford Motor Co., 849 F.2d 460 (9th. 1988)
• Wendt v. Host Int'l, Inc., 125 F.3d 806 (9th Cir. 1997)
• Hoffman v. Capital Cities/ABC, Inc., 255 F.3d 1180 (9th Cir. 2001)
• Samantha Critchell, "President as Pitchman: Obama Image used in Ad," Washington Post, January 7, 2010
• 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 (February 16, 17)

• 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" (forthcoming Stanford Law Review 2009)
• Counterfeit Chic (roam around the site for a bit)
• Barton Beebe, "Intellectual Property and the Sumptuary Code," ___ Harvard Law Review ___ (2010)

Guest Speaker (February 17): Professor Barton Beebe, New York University Law School (biography)

Fair Use (February 22, 23, 24)

• 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)
• Lawrence Lessig, Remix (2008), pp. 253-59, 266-68
• Robert Weisman, "Lawsuit Over Website Links in Spotlight," Boston Globe, January 23, 2009

Intellectual Property and Freedom of Speech (March 1, 2)

• 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)

Google Book Settlement (March 3)

• Pamela Samuelson, "Google Book Search and the Future of Books in Cyberspace," forthcoming in Minnesota Law Review 2010
• Alexandra Davies & Vanessa Friedman, "The Online Discussion of the Google Book Search Settlement" (May 13, 2009)

The Disaggregation of Intellectual Property (March 8)

• Lecture -- no reading assignment

Exhaustion (March 9, 10)

• Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Electronics, 128 S.Ct. 2109 (2008)
• Carsten Fink, "Entering the Jungle of Intellectual Property Rights, Exhaustion, and Parallel Importation," in Carsten Fink, ed., Inellectual Property and Development: Lessons from Recent Economic Research 171 (2005)
• William Fisher, "When Should We Permit Differential Pricing of Information?," 55 UCLA Law Review 1 (2007)

Patent Pools and Standard-Setting Organizations (March 22, 23)

• Alexander J. Hadjis, "Patent Pools Gain Popularity," National Law Journal, Dec. 6, 2004.
• 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)
• Rambus v. FTC, 522 F.3d 456 (2008)

IP Intermediaries (March 24)

• Intellectual Ventures, HBS Case 9-710-423 (2009)
• Ganaden, HBS Case ____ (2010)

The Health Crisis in the Developing World (March 29, 30, 31)

• 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).

Guest Speaker (March 31): Professor Kevin Outterson, Boston University (biography)

Gatekeepers (April 4, 6, 7)

• 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, No. 04 Civ. 4607 (SDNY 2008) [replace with CA2 decision when it issues]
• Hong Cheong Wong, "eBay's Liability for Counterfeits: A Transatlantic Comparison," Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, Dec. 3, 2009
• Sony v. Universal City Studios, 464 U.S. 417 (1984)
• MGM v. Grokster, 545 U.S. 913 (2005)
• Barak Y. Orbach, "Indirect Free Riding on the Wheels of Commerce: Dual-Use Technologies and Copyright Liability," 57 Emory Law Journal 409 (2008)

Guest Speaker (April 6): Bruce Rich, Chair of IP and Media Practice, Weil Gotschal (biography)

The Crisis in the Entertainment Industry (April 12, 13, 14)

• RIAA, "Piracy: Online and On the Street" (roam around this section of the RIAA website)
• MPAA, "Piracy and the Law" (roam around this section of the MPAA 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)
• Apple, Inc., HBS Case No. 9-708-480 (2008)
• Verizon, HBS Case Study ____ (2010)

ExtraLegal Norms (April 19, 20)

• Robert Ellickson, "A Hypothesis of Wealth-Mazimizing Norms: Evidence from the Whaling Industry," 5 Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 83 (1989)
• 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)
• 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
• Niva Elkin-Koren, "Governing Access to Users-Generated-Content: The Changing Nature of Private Ordering in Digital Networks" (draft 2008)

Conclusions (April 22)

• no reading assignment

last revised: February 14, 2010