Expanding the Boundaries of Intellectual Property: Innovation Policy for the Knowledge Society

Many countries have already agreed to accept minimum standards of intellectual property protection and enforcement. But how much control should innovators exercise over their creative works or inventions? This new collection of essays analyzes and develops this issue, which has assumed considerable importance in our new knowledge-based economy.

Professor Dreyfuss is currently the director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy, which sponsors interdisciplinary research on questions concerning the allocation of global resources to creative enterprises. Her research and teaching interests include intellectual property, privacy, the relationship between science and law, and civil procedure.

Diane Leenheer Zimmerman is Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. She writes about first amendment, women's rights and intellectual property issues. She lectures frequently in the United States and abroad on copyright, innovation policy and theory, libel, privacy, commercial speech, the regulation of pornography, and other issues. Harry First joined the faculty of New York University School of Law in 1976, where he currently teaches. Professor First is currently on leave from his position at NYU, serving as Chief of the Antitrust Bureau in the Office of the Attorney General of the State of New York.