This Week in Land Use Regulation, October 19th
1. London Breed's push to cut red tape in San Francisco. 2. New research: permitting process problems in the Bay Area. 3. Jenny Schuetz's tips for the YIMBY Rebel Alliance. [...]
MA Nursing Ballot Initiatives Would Drive Up Costs, Decrease Service for Patients
Whether you’re a believer in Medicare For All (or some similar single-payer regime) or more consumer-driven healthcare, there’s little dispute that the costs of the U.S. healthcare system are far [...]
How Streaming Has Changed Music
The advent of online streaming has definitely changed the music industry. Streaming sites like Spotify not only act as a substitute for unauthorized downloading, but also make up for lagging [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, October 18th
1. The benefits of Virginia's hair braider licensing deregulation. 2. How a free program can make legal services available to all.
USPTO Gets a Helping Hand Identifying Prior Art
A key requirement for an invention to be patented (read: receive temporary monopoly protection), it must be, among other things, “novel.” To determine if an invention is, in fact, novel, [...]
New Research: The Benefits of Repealing Virginia’s Hair Braider License Requirement
A great many occupational licensing requirements don’t pass the giggle test. Do you really need permission from the state to be a florist, horse masseuse, or fortune teller? This month, [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, October 17th
1. IP scaremongering by Content Creators Coalition 2. American Chemical Society and Elsevier vs. ResearchGate 3. Dean Baker on the costs of intellectual monopoly 4. "Stairway to Heaven" copyright infringement [...]
IP Scaremongering
In a medium post that’s more meme than argument, the Content Creators Coalition (c3action), a pro-IP group claiming to represent the interest of the producers of creative works, bemoans the [...]
May the Force Be With You, YIMBYs
In a post for Brooking Institution’s The Avenue, part of its Metropolitan Policy Program, Jenny Schuetz has a Star Wars joke-filled list of ways renters are “striking back” against restrictive [...]
New Research: How to Improve the Entitlement and Review Process in the Bay Area
While land-use and zoning regulations that impose outright bans on certain kinds of development are the first line of defense for anti-development forces in urban areas, the permitting process, both [...]