Document Type
Document
Publication Date
3-2019
Abstract
In many respects, PD4 is a helpful synthesis of the law, likely to provoke less controversy than drafts of earlier Chapters. Nevertheless, we remain concerned about this draft’s, like its predecessors’, inconsistent treatment of legal issues. As in earlier drafts, this one sometimes traverses the line between restating positive law and “improving” it. In several instances, these departures from positive law adopt policy positions we would endorse in a different kind of endeavor, such as a “Principles” project, or an acknowledged advocacy piece. But we do not believe it accurate to characterize these departures, however substantively desirable, as “restating” the law (as opposed to revising it).
Disciplines
Intellectual Property Law | Law
Center/Program
Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts
Recommended Citation
Jane C. Ginsburg & June M. Besek,
Comments on Preliminary Draft 4 [black letter and comments],
(2019).
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