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When I use a word ...
I've long been interested in the role of official definitions in standardizing meaning and potentially aiding (or deceiving) consumers. Aaron Bobrow-Strain, in his enjoyable White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf (I received a free review copy through LibraryThing), offers an...
Property, contract, and copyright
Chris Newman's excellent A License is Not a 'Contract Not to Sue': Disentangling Property and Contract in the Law of Copyright Licenses takes contract and property theory very seriously as applied to copyright. I particularly like his emphasis on the deed-like functions of written transfers;...
Reading list: After class
Myriam Gilles & Gary Friedman, After Class: Aggregate Litigation in the Wake of AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, 79 U. Chi. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2012): This excellent article looks at numerous restraints imposed on consumer class actions by various developments, including the “coup de...
Copyright and pre-1978 dissertations on microfilm
Gail Clement and Melissa Levine have written an article on the topic concluding that such dissertations were considered "published" by the relevant scholarly community. Abstract:We investigated whether American dissertations that were deposited in university libraries or disseminated on microfilm...
New book review by me
Making and Unmaking Intellectual Property: Creative Production in Legal and Cultural Perspective, edited by Mario Biagioli, Peter Jaszi, and Martha Woodmansee, 2 I.P.L. BOOK REV. 1 (2011).Also check out the rest of the volume of the I.P. Law Book Review.