Background
LANDES, William Martin was born in 1939 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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This book takes a fresh look at the most dynamic area of American law today, comprising the fields of copyright, patent, trademark, trade secrecy, publicity rights, and misappropriation. Topics range from copyright in private letters to defensive patenting of business methods, from moral rights in the visual arts to the banking of trademarks, from the impact of the court of patent appeals to the management of Mickey Mouse. The history and political science of intellectual property law, the challenge of digitization, the many statutes and judge-made doctrines, and the interplay with antitrust principles are all examined. The treatment is both positive (oriented toward understanding the law as it is) and normative (oriented to the reform of the law). Previous analyses have tended to overlook the paradox that expanding intellectual property rights can effectively reduce the amount of new intellectual property by raising the creators' input costs. Those analyses have also failed to integrate the fields of intellectual property law. They have failed as well to integrate intellectual property law with the law of physical property, overlooking the many economic and legal-doctrinal parallels. This book demonstrates the fundamental economic rationality of intellectual property law, but is sympathetic to critics who believe that in recent decades Congress and the courts have gone too far in the creation and protection of intellectual property rights.
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LANDES, William Martin was born in 1939 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
AB, Columbia University, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy in Economics, Columbia University, 1966.
Assistant Professor, Stanford University, 1965-1966. Assistant Professor, University Chicago, 1966-1969. Association Professor, Columbia University, 1969-1972.
Association Professor, City University New York, Graduate Center, 1972-1974. Research Staff, National Bureau of Economie Research, New York, New York, United States of America, since 1966. Clifton R. Musser Professor of Economics, University Chicago Law School, since 1974.
Founder, Lexecon Incorporated, Chicago, Illinois, since 1974. Editor, Journal of Law and Economics, since 1975.
( This book takes a fresh look at the most dynamic area ...)
The application of economic theory and quantitative methods of law. Early work concerned the impact of laws (e.g. fair employment laws) and legal institutions (e.g. courts) on behaviour. More recently, developed models to test the hypothesis that common law rules in torts, contracts and property are best explained as efforts by courts to promote efficient resource allocation.
Board directors Smart Museum Art, Chicago. Fellow: American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member: American Law and Economic Association (vice president 1991-1992, president 1992-1993), American Economic Association, Mont Pelerin Society.