Property outlaws : how squatters, pirates, and protesters improve the law of ownership / Eduardo Moisés Peñalver, Sonia K. Katyal.

"Property Outlaws puts forth the intriguingly counterintuitive proposition that, in the case of both tangible and intellectual property law, disobedience can often lead to an improvement in legal regulation. The authors argue that in property law there is a tension between the competing demands...

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Main Authors: Peñalver, Eduardo M., 1973- (Author), Katyal, Sonia K., 1972- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2010]
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Table of Contents:
  • Why property outlaws?
  • Property and intellectual property
  • Acquisitive outlaws : the pioneers
  • Expressive outlaws : civil rights sit-ins
  • Property outlaws and property altlaws
  • Acquisitive altlaws : the treatment action campaign, patents, and public health
  • Expressive altlaws : copyright and the new liberation of information
  • Two perspectives on property outlaws
  • Responding to property outlaws
  • The informational value of intellectual property disobedience
  • Responding to acquisitive altlaws
  • Responding to expressive altlaws.