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Although some reforms can happen only through legislation, some key reforms may be achievable through the courts.

Widespread adoption of uniform standards is essential to the smooth operation of our modern global economy. When private or-ganizations develop such standards, copyright protection of those stan-dards often creates a conºict between private intellectual property rights and society's need for standards. This conºict is especially appar-ent when a local or state government adopts a privately...

Orr's work falls on one side of a marked divide separating rule-based theories from practice-focused research. From within the tradition of workplace studies (which show themselves intermittently susceptible to rule-based assumptions), Orr argues that his predecessors failed to see the sort of improvisation and bricolage central to his analysis, for want of looking. I claim, by contrast, that it...

This article examines three recent topics in copyright policy from an economic perspective: (i) term extensions, (ii) the orphan works problem, and (iii) mass digitization projects. Copyright term extensions will make it even more difficult to locate rights holders in the future than it is at present; however there are some recent legislative proposals to address this problem. Term extensions...