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Remarks by Jerome Reichman

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2017

Jerome Reichman
Jerome Reichman*
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Vanderbilt University School of Law
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Emerging Issues in Information Technology
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 90 , 1996 , pp. 276 - 284
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* Professor, Northwestern School of Law.

1 See also, AALS's Intellectual Property Sections’ Symposium on Compliance with the TRIPS Agreement, 29 Vand, J. Transnat'l, L. 363–660 (1996); Reichman, J. H., Universal Minimum Standards of Intellectual Property Protection Under the TRIPS Component of the WTO Agreement, 29 Int'l Lawyer 345 (1995) [hereinafter Reichman, Universal Minimum Standards] Google Scholar.

2 See, e.g., Reichman, J. H., Computer Programs as Applied Scientific Know-How: Implications of Copyright Protection for Commercialized University Research, 42 Vand. L. Rev. 639, 648–68, 714–18 (1989) [hereinafter Reichman, Programs as Know-How] Google Scholar.

3 Sec, e.g., Gordon, Wendy J., Fair Use as Market Failure: A Structural and Economic Analysis of the Betamax Case and Its Predecessors, 82 Colum. L. Rev. 1600 (1982). For “cultural bargain“ theory, see, e.g., Jaszi, Peter A., Goodbye to All That: A Reluctant (and Perhaps Premature) Adieu to a Constitutionally-Grounded Discourse of Public Interest in Copyright Law, 29 Vand., J. Transnat'l, L. 595 (1996). For “portable fence“ theory (and implications for international law), see further Reichman, J. H., Intellectual Property in International Trade: Opportunities and Risks of a GATT Connection, 22 Vand., J. Transnat'l, L. 747, 800–812 (1989) [hereinafter Reichman, GATT Connection] Google Scholar.

4 168 CTS 185.

5 See generally, Reichman, Jerome H., Electronic Information Tools—The Outer Edge of World Intellectual Property Law, 24 Int'lRev. Indus. Prop. & Copyright L. [I.I.C.] 446 (1993) (conference version at 17 U. Dayton L. Rev. 797 (1992) [hereinafter Reichman, Electronic Information Tools] Google Scholar.

6 See, Samuelson, Pamela, Davis, Randall, Kapor, Mitchell D. & Reichman, J. H., A Manifesto Concerning the Legal Protection of Computer Programs, 94 Colum. L. Rev. 2308, 2320 (1994) [hereinafter Samuelson et al., Manifesto] (quoting Randall Davis, Intellectual Property and Software: The Assumptions Are Broken, in Proceedings of the WIPO Worldwide Symposium on the Intellectual Property Aspects of Artificial Intelligence (March 25–27, 1991)Google Scholar.

7 See, supra note 2 and accompanying text; Samuelson et al., Manifesto, supra note 5, at 2330–2365. For repercussions on the world market, see, e.g., Smith, Eric H. [President, International Intellectual Property Alliance (I.I.P.A.)], Worldwide Copyright Protection Under the TRIPS Agreement, 29 Vand. J. Transnat'l L. 559, 571 (1996)Google Scholar.

8 See, generally, Reichman, J. H., The Know-How Gap in the TRIPS Agreement: Why Software Fared Badly and What Are the Solutions, 17 Hastings Comm./Ent. L. J. 763, 779–84 (1995) (citing authorities) [hereinafter Reichman, Know-How Gap in TRIPS] Google Scholar.

9 See, Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co., 111 S. Ct. 1282, 1289–91 (1991).

10 See, generally, Reichman, Electronic Information Tools, supra note 4, 461–68 (citing authorities).

11 See, e.g., Reichman, Universal Minimum Standards, supra note 1, at 346–47, 381–82 (citing authorities); see also Reichman, J. H., The TRIPS Component of the GATT's Uruguay Round: Competitive Prospects for Intellectual Property Owners in an Integrated World Market, 4 Fordham Intellectual Prop., Media & Entertain. L. J. 171, 173–78 (1993) [hereinafter Reichman, TRIPS Component] Google Scholar.

12 See, e.g., Reichman, Universal Minimum Standards, supra note 1, at 347–85; Adrian Otten and Hannu Wager, Compliance With TRIPS: The Emerging World View, 29 Vand. J. Transnatl L. 391 (1996); see also Reichman, J. H., Compliance With the TRIPS Agreement: Introduction to a Scholarly Debate, 29 Vand. J. Transnat'l L. 363 (1996) [hereinafter Reichman, Compliance With TRIPS]. For specific problems and strategies of developing countries, see Reichman, J. H., From Free Riders to Fair Followers: Global Competition Under the TRIPS Agreement, N.Y.U. J. Int'l L. & Pol. (forthcoming 1996) [hereinafter Reichman, From Free riders to Fair Followers]; see also Reichman, J.H. Jmplications of the Draft TRIPS Agreement for Developing Countries as Competitors in an Integrated World Market, U.N. Doc. UNCTAD/OSG/DP/73 (UNCTAD Discussion Paper No. 73, Nov. 1993) [hereinafter Reichman, Implications of TRIPS] Google Scholar.

13 Reichman, Know-How Gap in TRIPS, supra note 7, at 765–66.

14 See, generally, id., at 767–86 (citing authorities).

15 See, Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases; H. R. 3531, U.S. Cong., House of Representatives, 104th Cong., 2d sess., May 23,1996 (version 1, May 29,1996) (“Database Investment and Intellectual Property Antipiracy and Intellectual Property Act of 1996“).

16 See, further, Reichman, J. H., Commodification of Scientific Data and the Assault on the Worldwide Public Interest in Research and Development, Vanderbilt L. Rev. (forthcoming 1997)Google Scholar.

17 Cf. Kurtz, Leslie A., Copyright and the National Information Infrastructure in the United States, 18 European Intellectual Prop. Rev. [E.I.P.R.] 120 (1996). See also Samuelson, Pamela, Missing Foundations of the Proposed European Database Directive, paper presented to the Specialist Meeting on Law, Information Policy, and Spatial Databases, sponsored by the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, Arizona State University College of Law, Oct. 28–30, 1994 [hereinafter Samuelson, Missing Foundations] (stressing importance of add-on products in digital environment)Google Scholar.

18 See, National Information Infrastructure Task Force, Report of the Working Group on Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure (Sept. 1995) [hereinafter U.S. White Paper]; S. 1284 and H.R. 2441 (National Infrastructure Copyright Protection Act of 1995). For analysis and criticism, see, e.g., Litman, Jessica, The Exclusive Right to Read, 13 Cardozo Arts & Entertain. L. J. 29 (1994). Samuelson, Pamela, Copyright Grab, Wired Magazine (1996); Kurz, supra note 16; McManis, Charles R., International Intellectual Property Protection and Emerging Computer Technology: Taking TRIPS on the Information Superhighway, Villanova L. Rev. (forthcoming 1996)Google Scholar.

19 See, e.g., Fox, Eleanor M., Trade, Competition, and Intellectual Property—TRIPS and Its Antitrust Counterparts, 29 Vand. J. Transnat'l L. 481 (1996); see also Reichman, J. H., Beyond the Historical Lines of Demarcation: Competition Law, Intellectual Property Rights, and International Trade After the GATT's Uruguay Round, 20 Brooklyn J. Int'lL. 75, 98–113 (1995)Google Scholar.

20 See, generally, Reichman, J. H., Legal Hybrids Between the Patent and Copyright Paradigms, 94 Colum. L. Rev. 2432, 2436–44, 2504–58 (“Beyond Art and Inventions: A Default Liability Regime for Applied Know- How“ [hereinafter Legal Hybrids]; see also Reichman, J. H., Charting the Collapse of the Patent-Copyright Dichotomy: Premises for a Restructured International Intellectual Property System, 13 Cardozo Arts & Entertain. L. J. 475 (1995)Google Scholar.

21 See, generally, Reichman, From Free Riders to Fair Followers, supra note 11.

22 Cf Adelman, Martin J. & Baldia, Sonia, Prospects and Limits of the Patent Provision in the TRIPS Agreement: The Case of India, 29 Vand. J. Transnat'lL. 507, 510 (1996)Google Scholar.