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Book SynopsisNo Law embraces an absolutist first amendment position to challenge the conventional idea that Congress may make laws abridging the freedom of expression to protect intellectual property
Trade Review"Overall, I strongly recommend the book. It was a complex and intellectually stimulating read. It clearly describes the field of intellectual property today...The book should be required reading for anyone interested in the area of copyright law and would find a home in any course focused on constitutional law, intellectual property or public policy."—
The Law and Politics Book Review"
No Law has everything that makes a book valuable. It is clearly written, makes an original argument based on exhaustive research and challenges conventional thinking. Moreover, it offers a possible solution to a pressing social question."—
International Journal of Communication"I was provoked and engaged by this book! There is much to learn here about intellectual property and the First Amendment, both separately and together.
No Law is a very elegantly written, well-organized, and readable work of legal fantasy, and I mean this in a good sense."—Paul J. Heald, University of Georgia
"This will be one of the most important books about intellectual property published this decade. The scholarship is more than excellent, the research is careful and well-documented, and the writing is nimble and illuminating." —-Keith Aoki, University of California, Davis
"Inspired at times by Justice Hugo Black, at times by Jerry Garcia, Lange andPowell deliver an irreverent polemic, arguing for a world in which a more robust understanding of the First Amendment and its commitment to genuinelyfree expression require a fundamental restructuring of our overly inflated systems of copyright and similar exclusive speech-licensing regimes."—Yochai Benkler, author of
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and FreedomTable of ContentsContents Preface xxx Acknowledgments xxx Part I. Intellectual Property in America: The Idea and its Merits 1 1. Unfair Competition and Trademarks 000 2. Patents, Copyright and Neighboring Rights 3. Exclusivity versus Appropriation: Some Questions and Costs 4. "Exclusive Rights" and the Constitution Part II. Intellectual Productivity and Freedom of Expression 5. Foreshadows: International News Service versus The Associated Press 6. Intellectual Productivity and Freedom of Expression: The Conditions of Their Coexistence Part III. The First Amendment in America: Some Chapters in a History of Debate 7. The Origins of the First Amendment and the Question of Original Meaning 8. The Sedition Act of 1798 and the First First Amendment Crisis 9. Justice Holmes and the Arrival of Balancing 10. Justice Black and the Absolute First Amendment Part IV. The Absolute First Amendment Revisited: The Amendment as a Prohibition on Power 11. Constitutional Absolutes in a Holmesian World 12. Forward to the Eighteenth Century Part V. Summing Up 13. Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment Notes 000 Bibliographic Note 000 Index 000
