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Copyright’s Twilight Zone

Copyright’s Twilight Zone

Jacqueline Lipton is a Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University. She is Co-Director for the Center of Law, Technology, and the Arts, and the Associate Director of the Frederick K Cox International Law Center. In the Web 2.0 era, copyright law has become too blunt an instrument to deal with the intricacies necessary […]

The Endowment Effect: IP and Human Rationality

The Endowment Effect: IP and Human Rationality

Brian Chau is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. In a recent article, Christopher J. Buccafusco and Christopher Jon Sprigman consider whether IP transactions are subject to “endowment effects”. The endowment effect is a human behavioural phenomenon in which an individual’s perceived value of an object they own is greater than the value prescribed by […]