Volume 1, No. 1

Table of Contents
  • Liberty Versus Property? Cracks in the Foundations of Copyright Law, by Richard Epstein (Vol, 1, No. 1, April 8, 2004) PDF | HTML
  • Is Copyright Property? Comments on Richard Epstein's Liberty vs. Property, by Adam Mossoff (Vol. 1, No. 1, April 8, 2004) PDF | HTML
  • Comments on Richard Epstein's Liberty vs. Property, by Solveig Singleton (Vol. 1, No. 1, April 8, 2004) PDF | HTML
Introduction to Volume 1, No. 1

In June 2003, The Progress & Freedom Foundation's Center for the Study of Digital Property and the National Center for Technology & Law of the George Mason University Law School (the Tech Center) joined forces to sponsor a day-long conference on Promoting Markets in Creativity: Copyright in the Internet Age.

We asked the distinguished scholars who presented papers to start from the premise that property rights and markets are important organizing principles for intellectual property, and to explore the strengths and weaknesses of these institutions in an age of instant communication combined with perfect and almost cost-free replication.

The day was divided into five topics:

  • Natural Rights and Copyrights
  • Does Internet Exceptionalism Justify A Different  Approach to Copyright?
  • Comparing Property Rights and Property Rules for Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights
  • Alternatives to Markets: Compulsory Licenses and Other Schemes
  • Views from the Tech World and Other Reservations

Each session consisted of a major presentation followed by two or three comments (except the last, which consisted of two short presentations). However, we encouraged the commenters to be as broad-ranging as the spirit moved them, so many of the comments are distinct and distinguished essays in their own right.

Over its first few issues, IPCENTRAL REVIEW will present the harvest of this day, starting with the first session, Natural Rights and Copyrights.

In this issue, the reader will find:

  • Richard Epstein, Liberty versus Property? Cracks in the Foundations of Copyright Law
  • Solveig Singleton, The Copyright Crisis as the War of the Roses: A View from the Tower
  • Adam Mossoff, Is Copyright Property? Comment on Richard Epstein's "Liberty vs. Property"

Subsequent issues will contain other papers presented at the conference.

 
IPCENTRAL REVIEW
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Intro to Volume 1, No. 2
 • Alternative Copy Systems: The Problems with a Compulsory License, by Stanley J. Leibowitz, (Vol. 1, No. 2, May 6, 2004) PDF | HTML
 • Copyrighted Goods as Public Goods, by Michael Abramowicz, (Vol. 1, No. 2, May 6, 2004) PDF | HTML
 • Why Be Creative? Motivation and Copyright Law in a Digital Era, by Katherine A. Lawrence, (Vol. 1, No. 2, May 6, 2004) PDF | HTML
 • Intro to Volume 1, No. 1