Maurizio Borghi
Law Lecturer at Brunel University, West London.

Earlier versions of this Article have been presented at the conference on Copyright Culture, Copyright History, held by the Cegla Center at Tel Aviv University, January 2010, and at the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy at the University of Toronto, March 2010. The author is grateful to Michael Birnhack, Abraham Drassinower and Ariel Katz for their kind support and to all the participants at both events for helpful comments and discussion. Special thanks go to Paul Edward Geller for his invaluable insights.