Assertive Modesty: An Economics of Intangibles

Authors

Wendy J. Gordon, Boston University School of LawFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-1994

ISSN

0010-1958

Publisher

Columbia Law School

Language

en-US

Abstract

At the center of our Symposium stand two papers: "A Manifesto Concerning the Legal Protection of Computer Programs" (Manifesto) and "Legal Hybrids: Between the Patent and Copyright Paradigms" (Legal Hybrids). Both are stimulating. Both are lengthy. As a result, my primary role is that of a guide: this Comment will summarize the authors' proposals, analyze certain aspects in greater detail, and outline their explicit and implicit methodologies. Part I of the Comment describes the papers' positions and methodologies. Part II highlights some of the papers' many contributions to the literature, and offers some other evaluative observations.

Comments

Symposium: Toward a Third Intellectual Property Paradigm

Recommended Citation

Wendy J. Gordon, Assertive Modesty: An Economics of Intangibles , in 94 Columbia Law Review 2579 (1994).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/2051