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87 S. Cal. L. Rev. 275 (2013-2014)
Innovation and Incarceration: An Economic Analysis of Criminal Intellectual Property Law

handle is hein.journals/scal87 and id is 303 raw text is: INNOVATION AND INCARCERATION:
AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF
CRIMINAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
LAW
CHRISTOPHER BUCCAFUSCO*
JONATHAN S. MASURt
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. INTRODUCTION                ..............................     ......276
II. THE ECONOMICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND
CRIMINAL LAW       ...................................280
A. THE ECONOMICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY .....             ......281
B. THE ECONOMICS OF CRIMINAL LAW: INCARCERATION,
DAMAGES, AND DETERRENCE           ................       ......284
C. PROPERTY (AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY) CRIMES ..............289
III. THE LIMITED CASE FOR CRIMINAL COPYRIGHT
LIABILITY             .......................................293
A. THE HARM OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT ........                 .....294
1. Copyright Infringement and Incentives ........         .....294
2. The Efficient Level of Copying ...................295
* Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Empirical Studies of
Intellectual Property, Chicago-Kent College of Law.
t Deputy Dean and Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School. The authors wish to
thank Kathy Baker, Stefan Bechtold, Rochelle Dreyfuss, Harry First, Rebecca Giblin, Eric Goldman,
Sarah Harding, Lital Helman, Margot Kaminski, Mark Lemley, Fred von Lohmann, Irina Manta, Lisa
Larrimore Ouellette, Matthew Sag, Pam Samuelson, David Schwartz, Chris Sprigman, Jennifer Urban,
Polk Wagner, and the attendees of the NYU Colloquium on Innovation Policy, the Max Planck-ETH
Zurich Conference on the Economics of IP and Antitrust, and the Chicago-Kent Faculty Workshop for
comments on a previous draft of this Article. The authors are also grateful for excellent research
assistance by Leah Eubanks, Matthew Schock, and Dayron Silverio. Masur would like to thank the
David and Celia Hillard Fund for research support.

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