Norms of Communication and Commodification

22 Pages Posted: 3 May 2020

Date Written: 1996

Abstract

Around the laws that regulate information and communication swarm a host of related nonlegal norms: norms of secrecy, confidentiality, and privacy; of anonymity, source-identity, and citation; of quotation, paraphrase, and hyperbole; norms of free copying and norms of obtaining permission; norms of gossip and of blackmail. The articles by Saul Levmore and Richard McAdams provide useful windows on some of the ways these laws and norms interact. The two articles also provide insight into the comparative advantage possessed in some circumstances by law and by nonlegal norms, respectively, when information and communication are at issue. In my brief Comment I will discuss these two articles, and some relevant issues of commensurability and commodification.

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Suggested Citation

Gordon, Wendy J., Norms of Communication and Commodification (1996). University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 144, No. 2321, 1996, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3587761

Wendy J. Gordon (Contact Author)

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