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What's Wrong with Copying? Cambridge: Harvard University Press, (in press) forthcoming Spring 2015. See Publisher's web page.
Two journal issues have been devoted to the book. The Intellectual Property Journal, Vol. 29, No. 1 (December 2016) was comprised of an Introduction by co-editors Lior Zemer (IDC, Herzliya) and Amit Elazari (UC Berkeley, SJD) pp. 1-10, and twelve review essays by Bita Amani (Queen’s University) pp. 141-154, Lionel Bently (Cambridge University) pp. 19-26, Maurizio Borghi (Bornemouth University) pp. 77-82, Peter Dicola (Northwestern University) pp. 121-126, Amit Elazari (UC Berkeley SJD) pp. 83-119, Lili Levi (University of Miami) pp. 33-70, Fiona Macmillan (University of London, Birkbeck) pp. 127-131, Luke McDonagh (City, University of London) pp. 71-75, Mark McKenna (University of Notre Dame) pp. 27-32, Michal Shur-Ofry (Hebrew University) pp. 133-139, Kim Treiger-Bar-Am (Bar-Ilan University) pp. 11-18, and Lior Zemer (IDC, Herzliya) pp. 155-174. The IP Book Law Review, Vol. 7, No. 2 (March 2017) was comprised of contributions by Mark Rose (US Santa Barbara, English) pp. 1-6, Jessica Silbey (Northeastern University) pp. 7-17, Glynn Lunney (Texas A & M University) pp. 18-26, and an author response by me, pp. 27-34. The book has also been reviewed in the Michigan Law Review, (2017) Vol. 116, Issue 6 by Shyamkrishna Balganesh (University of Pennsylvania) pp. 1047-1069, and it has been noted/reviewed in Harvard Law Review, Vol. 128, p. 884 (2016); Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Vol. 53, Issue 3 (2016), pp. 1101-1103, by James A. Hayes; Law Library Journal, Vol. 107:4, pp. 589-590, by Janeen Williams; and Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. October 2015, pp. 637-638 by Andrea Rush.
Language and Copyright, co-edited with Ysolde Gendreau, Yvon Blais, Carswell and Bruylant publishers, 2009.
Freud's Theory of Culture: Eros, Loss and Politics. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.
Reviewed in Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association by Robert A. Paul, Emory University (January 2004); in Perspectives on Politics, published by the American Political Science Association, by C. Fred Alford, University of Maryland (March 2004); in Choice Magazine (November 2003) by R.H. Balsam, Yale University; in Canadian Journal of Political Science (March 2004) by Don Carveth, York University; in Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis (Spring 2004) by Sarah Freke, Toronto Psychoanalytic Society & Institute; in Journal of Phenomenological Psychology (35:1, 2004) by M. Guy Thompson, Berkeley; and in Political Studies Review (3(1), 2005) by Kurt Hirtler, University of Leeds.
Articles
Response to Print Symposium on my book, What’s Wrong with Copying? (Harvard University Press, 2015) in Jurisprudence: An International Journal of Legal and Political Thought, forthcoming 2017.
Response to Print Symposium on my book, What’s Wrong with Copying? in The IP Law Book Review, Vol. 7, No. 2 (March 2017), 27-34.
“Subject Matter, Scope and User Rights in Copyright Law”, in Austin Sarat, ed., Studies in Law, Politics and Society Special Issue: Thinking and Rethinking Intellectual Property, Volume 67, 59-74 (2015).
"Copyright Infringement as Compelled Speech" in Philosophy and Intellectual Property, Annabelle Lever, ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2012). 203-224.
"Copyright is Not About Copying" (2012) 125 Harvard Law Review Forum, 108-119.
"A Note on Incentives, Rights and the Public Domain in Copyright Law" Notre Dame Law Review [forthcoming 2011].
"Una Prespectiva sobre la Dicotomía Idea/Expressión Basada en Derechos" (2010) Revista Latinoamericana de Propiedad Intelectual Vol.1 No.1 (Argentina).
Spanish translation of "A Rights-Based View of the Idea/Expression Dichotomy in Copyright Law"(2010) Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence Vol XVI, No.1.
Language and Copyright (2009) co-edited with Ysolde Gendreau, Yvon Blais/Carswell and Bruylant publishers.
"From Distribution to Dialogue: Remarks on the Concept of Balance in Copyright Law" (2009) 34 Journal of Corporation Law 991, special Symposium Issue on Invention, Creation and Public Policy. Reprinted in 06 Anuario Andino de Derechos Intelectuales (Perú, 2010), in press.
"Exceptions Properly So-Called" (2009) in Language and Copyright, co-edited with Ysolde Gendreau, Yvon Blais, Carswell and Bruylant publishers.
“Canadian Originality: Notes on a Judgment in Search of an Author” (2009) in Ysolde Gendreau, ed., An Emerging Intellectual Property Paradigm: Perspectives from Canada, Edward Elgar Publishers; Reprinted in Audhinarayana Vavili, ed., Creativity and Originality: Copyright Dilemma (India: Amicus Books, Icfai University Press, 2010).
“Authorship as Public Address: On the Specificity of Copyright vis-à-vis Patent and Trade-Mark” (2008) 1 Michigan State Law Review.
“Examinando Atentamente los derechos del usuario” (2008) 04 Anuario Andino de Derechos Intellectuales.
Spanish translation of “Taking User Rights Seriously,” in Michael Geist, Ed., In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law, Toronto: Irwin Law, 2005.
"The Art of Selling Chocolate: Remarks on Copyright's Domain" (2007) 4 University of Ottawa Law & Technology Journal.
Reprinted in Michael Geist, ed., From "Radical Extremism" to "Balanced Copyright": Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda, Toronto: Irwin Law, 2010.
“Notes on the Distinction Between Copyright and Patent” in McGill University Meredith Memorial Lectures 2006: New Approaches to Intellectual Property in a Transsystemic World, 2007.
“Capturing Ideas: Copyright and the Law of First Possession” (2006) 54:1&2 Cleveland State Law Review, Symposium in Honour of Margaret J. Radin Special Issue.
“Supreme Court Considers Nature of Confusion” (with Signe Silver), December 2005/January 2006 Managing Intellectual Property, December 2005/January 2006.
“Taking User Rights Seriously” in Michael Geist, ed., In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law, (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2005).
“Notes on the Public Domain” in Intellectual Property Law, Mollengrafica Series, Issue 15, (Intersentia Publishers, 2005).
“Sweat of the Brow, Creativity, and Authorship: On Originality in Canadian Copyright Law” (2004) 1:1&2 inaugural issue of the University of Ottawa Law & Technology Journal.
“Property, Patents and Ethics: A Comment on Wendy Adams’ ‘The Myth of Ethical Neutrality’” (2003) 39:2 Canadian Business Law Journal.
“CCH Canadian Ltd. v. Law Society of Upper Canada: A Primer” (2003) 28:5 Canadian Law Libraries Review.
Freud’s Theory of Culture: Eros, Loss, and Politics (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003).
“A Rights-Based View of the Idea/Expression Dichotomy in Copyright Law” (2003) XVI:1 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence.
Spanish translation: "Una Perspectiva sobre la Dicotomía Idea/Expresión Basada en Derechos," Revista Latinoamericana de Propiedad Intelectual, Vol. 1, Num. 1 (Argentina, 2010).
Chinese translation forthcoming in China Intellectual Property Review. Draft version published as “Labour and Intersubjectivity: Notes on the Natural Law of Copyright” Legal Scholarship Network (online), Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum special issue (2001).
“The Doctrine of Political Purposes in the Law of Charities: A Conceptual Analysis” in B. Chapman, J. Phillips and D. Stevens, eds., Between State and Market: Essays on Charities Law and Policy in Canada. (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s, 2001).
“Unrequested Benefits in the Law of Unjust Enrichment” (1998) 48 University of Toronto Law Journal 459.
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