No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment Book

Contents

Preface....................ix
Acknowledgments....................xiii
PART I INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN AMERICA: THE IDEA AND ITS MERITS 1 Unfair Competition and Trademarks....................3
2 Patents, Copyright, and Neighboring Rights....................34
3 Exclusivity versus Appropriation: Some Questions and Costs....................65
4 "Exclusive Rights" and the Constitution....................108
PART II INTELLECTUAL PRODUCTIVITY AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION 5 Foreshadowings: International News Ser vice v. Associated Press....................149
6 Intellectual Productivity and Freedom of Expression: The Conditions of Their Coexistence....................168
PART III THE FIRST AMENDMENT IN AMERICA: SOME CHAPTERS IN A HISTORY OF DEBATE 7 The Origins of the First Amendment and the Question of Original Meaning....................195
8 The Sedition Act of 1798 and the First First Amendment Crisis....................212
9 Justice Holmes and the Arrival of Balancing....................225
10 Justice Black and the Absolute First Amendment....................239
PART IV THE ABSOLUTE FIRST AMENDMENT REVISITED: THE AMENDMENT A S A PROHIBITION ON POWER 11 Constitutional Absolutes in a Holmesian World....................263
12 Forward to the Eighteenth Century....................284
PART V SUMMING UP 13 Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment....................305
Notes....................327
Bibliographic Note....................417
Errata and Apocrypha....................419
Index....................421