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56 Drake L. Rev. 427 (2007-2008)
Competition Law and Copyright Misuse

handle is hein.journals/drklr56 and id is 437 raw text is: COMPETITION LAW AND COPYRIGHT MISUSEt John T. Cross* & Peter K. Yu** TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction ........................................................................................... 428 II. Copyright Protection and Copyright Abuse ...................................... 428 III. Copyright and Competition Law ......................................................... 433 A. Four Types of Copyright Abuse .................................................... 434 1. Exacting Concessions from the Licensee ................................ 435 2. Limiting the Licensee's Ability to Deal with Competitors ...435 3. Limiting Another's Ability to Compete .................................. 436 4. Anticompetitive Use of the Judicial System ........................... 437 B. Application of the Law of Monopolies to Copyright Abuse ..... 438 1. Basic Principles of Canadian Law ............................................ 438 2. Basic Principles of U .S. Law ..................................................... 441 3. Applying the Basic Principles to Copyright Abuse ............... 443 a. Exacting Concessions from the Licensee ...................... 443 b. Limiting the Licensee's Ability to Deal w ith C om petitors .............................................................. 446 c. Limiting Another's Ability to Compete ........................ 448 d. Anticompetitive Use of the Judicial System ................. 453 4. Remedies Under the Law of Monopolies .............................. 454 t Copyright © 2008 John T. Cross and Peter K. Yu. An earlier version of this Article was presented at the 2007 Annual Conference of ALAI Canada in Montreal and was published in the conference proceedings. John T. Cross & Peter K. Yu, Competition Law and Copyright Misuse, in UN COCKTAIL DE DROIT D'AUTEUR 55 (Ysolde Gendreau ed., 2007). The authors would like to thank Ysolde Gendreau for her kind invitation and hospitality, Thomas Cotter for his valuable comments and suggestions, and Alexander Kanous for excellent research and editorial assistance. Grosscurth Professor of Intellectual Property Law, University of Louisville School of Law; B.S. Bradley University, 1981; J.D. University of Illinois, 1984; Doctor of Laws, University of Turku, 2006. Kern Family Chair in Intellectual Property Law & Director, Intellectual Property Law Center, Drake University Law School; Visiting Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong; Research Fellow, Center for Studies of Intellectual Property Rights, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law; B.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996; J.D. Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, 1999.

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