Over the last few decades a steady increase in intellectual property law has occurred. Patent subject matter has been extended to every field of endeavor, including patents now issued on subject matter once thought unpatentable: new life forms, business methods, software, and traditional ecological knowledge, to name a few. Copyright’s reach has similarly broadened to cover things such as software, and to provide new rights, like the anti-circumvention rules found in the Digital Millennium Cop more...