This Week in Intellectual Property, February 23rd
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 [...]
Operation Warp Speed: A Retrospective
A recent Government Accountability Office report examines Operation Warp Speed’s (OWS) performance in vaccine development and manufacturing. The Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Defense (DOD) had awarded [...]
The Food is Terrible and the Portions are Too Small: Patent Edition
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 [...]
This Week in Land Use Regulation, February 19th
News and Commentary Tim Kohut opines for Cal Matters that electric housing developments are critical to cutting costs in California. Scott Beyer forwards 'market urbanism zoning' allowing private negotiation over [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, February 18th
News and Commentary A Massachusetts law recognizes pharmacists as health providers while expanding insurance coverage of telehealth reports Loren Bonner for the American Pharmacist Association. Washington Representative Brandon Vick has [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, February 19th
News and Commentary Daniel Sherlock and Matthew Larvick detail final IRS regulations modifying long-term capital gains treatment in The National Law Review. Kevin Wack presents the controversy over potential for [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, February 18th
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 [...]
“Cop”yright Filters
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 [...]
Artists’ Rights vs Alt-Right
A recent Ipse Dixit podcast episode featured the copyright litigation of Matt Furie, creator of the comic character turned alt-right symbol Pepe the Frog. Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of [...]
This Week in Land Use Regulation, February 12th
News and Commentary WDVM 25's Rebecca Burnett notes Neighborhood Development Company founder Adrian Washington's call for affordable housing units in D.C. Nolan Grey analyses the effectiveness of the modern NIMBY [...]