@article{1479163,
      recid = {1479163},
      author = {Cass, Ronald A.,  and Hylton, Keith N, },
      title = {Laws of Creation : Property Rights in the World of Ideas  /},
      pages = {1 online resource (266 p.) :},
      abstract = {While innovative ideas and creative works increasingly  drive economic success, the historic approach to  encouraging innovation and creativity by granting property  rights has come under attack by a growing number of legal  theorists and technologists. In Laws of Creation, Ronald  Cass and Keith Hylton take on these critics with a vigorous  defense of intellectual property law. The authors look  closely at the IP doctrines that have been developed over  many years in patent, copyright, trademark, and trade  secret law. In each area, legislatures and courts have  weighed the benefits that come from preserving incentives  to innovate against the costs of granting innovators a  degree of control over specific markets. Over time, the  authors show, a set of rules has emerged that supports  wealth-creating innovation while generally avoiding overly  expansive, growth-retarding licensing regimes. These rules  are now under pressure from detractors who claim that  changing technology undermines the case for intellectual  property rights. But Cass and Hylton explain how  technological advances only strengthen that case. In their  view, the easier it becomes to copy innovations, the harder  to detect copies and to stop copying, the greater the  disincentive to invest time and money in inventions and  creative works. The authors argue convincingly that  intellectual property laws help create a society that is  wealthier and inspires more innovation than those of  alternative legal systems. Ignoring the social value of  intellectual property rights and making what others create  and nurture "free" would be a costly mistake indeed.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479163},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674067646},
}