About Tom W. Bell
Tom W. Bell teaches as a professor at Chapman University School of Law, in Orange County, California. He specializes in intellectual property and high-tech law, topics on which he has written a variety of articles. After earning his J.D. from the University of Chicago School of Law, Prof. Bell practiced law in Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C., served as Director of Telecommunications and Technology Studies at the Cato Institute, and joined the Chapman faculty in 1998. For fun, he surfs, plays guitar, and goofs around with his kids.Posts by Tom W. Bell
- A Copyright Giant Gives Up in Disgust
- Nice to Be Wanted
- Cato Unbound: Towards a Copyriot Act
- Debugging the Pledge of Allegiance
- Building Exits into CFTC Regulation
- Getting from Collective Intelligence to Collective Action
- The Specter of Copyism v. Blockheaded Authors
- Folding Heart Card, Uncopyrighted
- The Packet-Switched Society
- Copyrights as Positive Natural Rights
- The Common Law from Satellite
- Copyright, Mapped
- Copyright’s Path
- Discouraging Just Enough Infringement
- The Specter of Copyism
- The Standard Economic Model of Copyright
- Locke on Copyright
- Copyright Infringement More Tax Evasion than Speeding
- The Morality of Unauthorized Copying
- Copyright Abandonment for Fun and Profit
- Copyright in 2027: A Letter from the Future
- Deregulating Expressive Works
- Fair Use vs. Fared Use
- Copyright Term v. Copyright Inception
- Copyright on the Third Hand
- The Indelicate Imbalancing of Copyright Policy
- Uncopyright Notice: (¢)
- User-Generated Content, Copyright Policy, and Blockheaded Authors
- PurePlay’s Patented Legal Hack
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Copyright as Intellectual
PropertyPrivilege Webcast and PowerPoint -
Copyright as Intellectual
PropertyPrivilege - Binary Demand for Copyrighted Goods
- Outgrowing Copyright
- The Standard Economic Model of IP
- A Parable About Copyright’s Future
- IP: An Odd Monopoly
- More Authors, Less Copyright
- Betcha.com’s Hack of Anti-Internet Gaming Laws
- When Markets Outgrow Copyrights
- On “Codifying Copyright’s Misuse Defense”
- How the UnInGEn-ious Act Will Encourage Internet Gambling
- The UnInGEn-ious Act’s Non-Impact on Internet Gambling
- Washington Stock Exchange Takes Off
- Prediction Markets Whup on Copyrights and Patents
- Rutan Blasts Off for Planet Regulation
- Times for Enforcing Copyright
- File-Swappers Give Thanks for a Turkey of a Law
- Nada to ADA on ‘Net?
