This paper exploits exogenous variation in the adoption of copyrights – as a result of the timing of Napoléon’s military victories in Italy – to examine the effects of copyrights [...]
News and Commentary While the Tillis/Coons DMCA 2020 hearings aren't coming back anytime soon, it's important to remember that while many have always had an axe to grind in the [...]
Innovation is important for firm performance and broader economic growth. But breakthrough innovations necessarily require greater risk-taking than more incremental approaches. To understand how managers respond to uncertainty when making [...]
News and Commentary Here's an interesting article from The Columbia Journal of Law and Arts examining the nature of copyright law in the context of "revenge porn," centering on to what [...]
Whenever policymakers consider approaches to reduce drug spending, the pharmaceutical industry sings a familiar refrain— any reduction in drug manufacturer revenues will cause investment to wither, depriving manufacturers of the [...]
As yet another coronavirus spreads around the globe, scientists are once again trying to develop new treatments and vaccines. Much remains unknown about this family of viruses. But we know [...]
Understanding the profitability of pharmaceutical companies is essential to formulating evidence-based policies to reduce drug costs while maintaining the industry’s ability to innovate and provide essential medicines. This cross-sectional study [...]
The mean cost of developing a new drug has been the subject of debate, with recent estimates ranging from $314 million to $2.8 billion. Data were analyzed on new therapeutic [...]
News and Commentary In the most recent and interesting intersection of artificial intelligence and copyright law, programmer/musicians Damien Riehl and Noah Rubin have produced an AI that generates over 300,000 [...]
Social and policy interest in intellectual property, and patents, in particular, is growing. This is reflected in the rise of scholarly inquiry on the topic beyond the legal community, including [...]