Abstract: | A book may be good for nothing; or there may be onlyone thing in it worth knowing; are we to read it all through?(Samuel Johnson) This section is dedicated to the review of ideas, articles,books, films and other media. It will include replies (and rejoinders)to articles, the evaluation of new ideas or proposals, and reviewsof books and articles both directly and indirectly related tointellectual property law. In 1966, Professor Benjamin Kaplan gave the Carpentier Lecturesat Columbia University. His subject was copyright law and eachof his three lectures examined a different aspect of that subject.The first looked at the First Three Hundred and FiftyYears, the second at Plagiarism Reexamined,and the final at Proposals and Prospects. Theselectures were |