Intellectual Property Law

New Paper on SSRN on Law and Knowledge

By Mike Madison

I’ve posted a new paper to SSRN titled “Notes on a Geography of Knowledge.”  (Download it here.)  The paper is part of a forthcoming symposium being published by the Fordham Law Review, organized by Kathy Strandburg, Jay Kesan, and Brett Frischmann and titled, “When Worlds Collide: Intellectual Property at the Interface Between Systems of Knowledge Creation.”  Here is the abstract:

Law and knowledge jointly occupy a metaphorical landscape. Understanding that landscape is essential to understanding the full complexity of knowledge law. This Article identifies some landmarks in that landscape, which it identifies as forms of legal practice: several recent cases involving intellectual property licenses, including the recent patent law decision in Quanta v. LG Electronics and the open source licensing decision in Jacobsen v. Katzer. The Article offers a preliminary framework for exploring the territories of knowledge practice in which those legal landmarks appear.

My writing sometimes addresses abstract themes (in this case, knowledge), so in this piece I tried to connect the abstractions to some concrete questions of legal form (in this case, IP licensing).  Thoughts and comments are, as always, welcome.

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Full post as published by Madisonian.net on April 02, 2009 (boomark / email).