Intellectual Property Issues
Monopoly for Me
by Prof. Stan Liebowitz,
University of Texas at Dallas
Keeping a monopoly on yourself? Economists are trained to examine individual markets in order to determine whether or not those markets are functioning in an “economically efficient” manner. Economic efficiency, once achieved, requires that there be no way to increase the overall “surplus” – the difference between benefits and costs – available to members of society....
Copyright as Censorship – Part II
by Prof. Jim Gibson,
University of Richmond School of Law
In this essay, I discuss copyright’s role in facilitating a different kind of censorship: lawsuits in which a copyright owner seeks to suppress expression rather than facilitate it....