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Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice Advance Access originally published online on March 27, 2006
Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 2006 1(6):367; doi:10.1093/jiplp/jpl041
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© The Author (2006). Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved

Editorial

Consensus or compulsion?

Jeremy Phillips
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When a person receives the same message often enough, from intelligent people whose opinions are not only valued but are handsomely paid for, he is apt to believe it. Yet, acceptance within the canon of generally accepted wisdom does not of itself qualify a widely held belief as being true.

In the field of IP as elsewhere, opinions are often accepted uncritically on the trusting assumption that . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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