Rent Check A ruling in Google v. Oracle may come down tomorrow, and many in non-computer copyright-centered industries (think photography, film, literature, etc.) are concerned that a ruling in Google's favor [...]
In advance of a possible ruling on Google v. Oracle coming this Thursday, I’d like to consider the implications of two potential outcomes in the case. I’ve written previously on [...]
Rent Check Sean Mooney provides a rundown of a new report from the Government Accountability Office, which reviewed the success of Operation Warp Speed, how recipient firms were able to [...]
I have previously written on the absolute necessity to make the know-how necessary to manufacture and distribute coronavirus vaccines available as soon as possible. Life can’t truly return to normal [...]
Rent Check Dean Baker wrote about the role that intellectual property plays in the scope of inequality, and I followed-on by analogizing the removal of intellectual property protections (i.e. government [...]
A few weeks ago, Vice reported a Beverly Hills police officer playing “Santaria” on his phone while being filmed, presumably so the song would be flagged by an automated copyright [...]
News and Commentary I've written a commentary on the need to make the COVID-19 vaccines open via compulsory licensing, the suspension of intellectual property protections abroad, and voluntary measures by [...]
In The Nation, Dean Baker has an article about the power of intellectual property rights as a driver of inequality: The effect of [expanding copyright and patent protections] was to [...]
News and Commentary In USA Today, Charles Duan and Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) argue that it's necessary for taxpayers to assert their rights as the primary investors of the coronavirus [...]
News and Commentary A bill signed into law by then-President Donald Trump, the "Orange Book Transparency Act of 2020," is designed to remove invalid patents from the Orange Book list [...]