Yale Journal of Law & Technology articles

Recent articles from Yale Journal of Law & Technology

Trademark externalities.
September 22, 2007... ABSTRACT This Article investigates two particularly intriguing aspects of evolving theories of intellectual property. The first is how well new theories mesh with traditional theories. Externality, theory from this decade recapitulates public goods theory from the 1980s. Misappropriation...

Surfin' Safari - why competent lawyers should research on the web.
September 22, 2007... ABSTRACT The easy availability of information on the internet has drastically changed the way that lawyers conduct legal research and has also affected the standards .for competency to which lawyers are held. This Article explores the ways in which judges' and lawyers' expectations have...

Digital searches, general warrants, and the case for the courts.
September 22, 2007... ABSTRACT Translating Fourth Amendment rules designed to regulate searches and seizures of physical property into rules that regulate digital investigations raises numerous questions. This Note seeks to address one narrow subset of the issues digital evidence collection presents: the...

Private legal systems: what cyberspace might teach legal theorists.
September 22, 2007... ABSTRACT One of the most pervasive and recurrent issues that legal theory has had to deal with is the very concept of law. And one of the most puzzling questions that cyberspace lawyers have been facing is where and in which form law is to be found on the Internet. This essay seeks to...

Copyright distributive injustice.
September 22, 2007... ABSTRACT Copyright law is not distinctively designed for redistribution. And yet, numerous fairness scholars and other critics of the economics paradigm claim that copyright law should be based upon redistribution, rather than efficiency. Redistributive justice goals' intrinsically play...