Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1996
ISSN
0041-9907
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Language
en-US
Abstract
Around the laws that regulate information and communication swarm a host of related nonlegal norms: norms of secrecy, confidentiality, and privacy; of anonymity, source-identity, and citation; of quotation, paraphrase, and hyperbole; norms of free copying and norms of obtaining permission; norms of gossip and of blackmail. The articles by Saul Levmore and Richard McAdams provide useful windows on some of the ways these laws and norms interact. The two articles also provide insight into the comparative advantage possessed in some circumstances by law and by nonlegal norms, respectively, when information and communication are at issue. In my brief Comment I will discuss these two articles, and some relevant issues of commensurability and commodification.
Recommended Citation
Wendy J. Gordon,
Norms of Communication and Commodification
,
in
144
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
2321
(1996).
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