Goldstein on Copyright Law: A Realist's Approach to a Technological Age

The treatise writer's dilemma is that while reliability requires faithful interpretation of the law as it stands, he or she must also remain sufficiently detached and forward-looking to assist decisionmakers in shaping the law as it ought to be. The better treatise writers resolve this tension by devising jurisprudential and methodological approaches that broaden the horizons of experienced practitioners in the field. Paul Goldstein's Copyright: Principles, Law and Practice fits this mold. His ability to use economic analysis to illuminate discrepancies between judicial decisions and legal doctrines distinguishes this major new treatise from other useful commentaries in the field.2 Professor Goldstein's treatise arrives at a time when economic and inter