Intellectual Property

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Books and Book Chapters

"Copyright and Patent," Chapter 38, Cato Handbook for Policymakers, 7th Edition (2009).

What's Yours Is Mine: Open Access and the Rise of Infrastructure Socialism, by Adam Thierer and Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. (April 2003)

"Intellectual Property," Chapter 40, Cato Handbook for Policymakers, 5th Edition (2003).

Copy Fights: The Future of Intellectual Property in the Information Age, edited by Adam Thierer and Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. (July 2002)

"Index of Patent Rights," by Walter G. Park and Smita Wagh, Chapter 2, Economic Freedom of the World: 2002 Annual Report.

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Cato Studies

"Toward Property Rights in Spectrum: The Difficult Policy Choices Ahead," by Dale Hatfield and Phil Weiser, Policy Analysis no. 575, August 17, 2006

"Circumventing Competition: The Perverse Consequences of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act," by Timothy B. Lee, Policy Analysis no. 564, March 21, 2006

"Compulsory Licensing vs. the Three "Golden Oldies": Property Rights, Contracts, and Markets," by Robert P. Merges, Policy Analysis no. 508, January 15, 2004

"Policing Pirates in the Networked Age," by Stan Liebowitz, Policy Analysis no. 438, May 15, 2002

"The Case for Public Access to Federally Funded Research Data," by Michael Gough and Steven Milloy, Policy Analysis no. 366, February 2, 2000

Articles and Newsletters

"U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: FAIL," by Jim Harper, TechKnowledge no. 122, February 9, 2009.

"The Myth of Copyright Inefficiency," by Stan J. Liebowitz, Regulation, vol. 32, no. 1, Spring 2009.

"Of Patents and Property," by James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer, Regulation, vol. 31, no. 4, Winter 2008-2009.

"A Final Response to Menell," by Richard A. Epstein, Regulation, vol. 31, no. 1, Spring 2008.

"Intellectual Property and the Law of Land -- A Reply to Richard Epstein," by Peter S. Menell, Regulation, vol. 30, no. 4, Winter 2007-2008.

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Opinion and Commentary

"The Real Victims in the Patent Wars," by Timothy B. Lee, Slate, February 27, 2012

"Copyright Case May Have Profound Effect on Treaty Power," by Ilya Shapiro, JURIST, January 27, 2012

"Blackout Protesting SOPA, PIPA Bills Makes Statement on Censorship," by Julian Sanchez and David Segal, Newark Star-Ledger, January 19, 2012

"SOPA, Internet Regulation And the Economics of Piracy," by Julian Sanchez, Wired (Online), January 18, 2012

"Focus on Innovation Instead," by Julian Sanchez, The New York Times (Online), January 18, 2012

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Legal Briefs

Mayo v. Prometheus Labs, September 9, 2011 (PDF, 218 KB)

Golan v. Holder, June 20, 2011 (PDF, 202 KB)

FLFMC, LLC v. Wham-O, Inc., February 28, 2011 (PDF, 168 KB)

Events

"Unintended Consequences of the Rogue Website Crackdown," January 19, 2012 [Capitol Hill Briefing]

"Against Intellectual Monopoly," November 10, 2008 [Book Forum]

"The Crime of Reason and the Closing of the Scientific Mind," October 10, 2008 [Book Forum]

"Copyright Controversies: Freedom, Property, Content Creation, and the DMCA ," April 26, 2006 [Conference]

"Copy Fights: Can Politicians or Entrepreneurs Best Protect Intellectual Property?," September 19, 2002 [Policy Forum]

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Multimedia

Evaluating Congress's Response to Online Piracy (January 25, 2012) [Cato Video, 15:01]

Unintended Consequences of the Rogue Website Crackdown SOPA, PIPA and OPEN Legislation featuring Julian Sanchez, James L. Gatusso, Ryan Radia, Allan Friedman and Dan Kaminsky (January 19, 2012) [Events, 01:04:22]

[citation needed] from SOPA, PROTECT IP Advocates featuring Julian Sanchez (January 18, 2012) [Daily Podcast, 07:23]

Internet Censorship Is the Wrong Answer to Online Piracy (December 13, 2011) [Cato Video, 03:10]

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