ISIL Freedom Network: United States > Scholarly and In-Depth Studies > Intellectual Property

Policing pirates in the networked age
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Stan Liebowitz
Country: United States

"This paper examines whether new Internet copying technologies are likely to be different from prior technologies in their ability to destroy the value of intellectual property rights and concludes that they are." It is available in Adobe PDF. (05/15/02)

Does compulsory licensing of music on the internet violate the takings clause?
Source: CFIF
Author: Laurie Messerly
Country: United States

"This article argues that it violates the Fifth Amendment Takings Clause for Congress to require music copyright holders to allow unauthorized use of their material on the Internet and to force them to accept licensing fees as established through a compulsory licensing arrangement."

'To promote the progress of science and useful arts'
Source: Acton Institute
Author: D. Eric Schansberg
Country: United States

"[T]he institution of patent and copyright law, especially the manner in which it recognizes and establishes intellectual property rights, is an important watershed moment in the history of liberty and an essential aspect of the impressive productivity and creativity of the free economy." (Summer 2001)

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