Introduction --

1. The economic theory of property --

2. How to think about copyright --

3. A formal model of copyright --

4. Basic copyright doctrines --

5. Copyright in unpublished works --

6. Fair use, parody, and burlesque --

7. The economics of trademark law --

8. The optimal duration of copyrights and trademarks --

9. The legal protection of postmodern art --

10. Moral rights and Visual Artists Rights Act --

11. The economics of patent law --

12. The patent court : a statistical evaluation --

13. The economics of trade secrecy law --

14. Antitrust and intellectual property --

15. The political economy of intellectual property law --

Conclusion --

Acknowledgments --

Case index --

Author index --

Subject index.