describing creativity in terms of an individual liberty
whose form remains largely unspecified. 2 Economic theorists of
copyright work from the opposite end of the creative process, seeking
to divine the optimal rules for promoting creativity by measuring its
marketable byproducts.3 But these theorists offer no particular reason
to think that marketable bypro ducts are either an appropriate proxy or
an effective stimulus for creativity (as opposed to production), and
more typically refuse to engage the question. The upshot is that the
more we talk about creativity, the more it disappears from view. At
the same time, the mainstream of intellectual property scholarship has
persistently overlooked a broad array of social science methodologies
that provide both descriptive tools for constructing ethnographies of
creative processes and theoretical tools for modeling them.