This Week in Occupational Licensing, October 15th
Rent Check Alex Muresianu has a guest post discussing the role of occupational licensing fees and state finances. Though a tempting source of revenue, relying on licensing fees to shore [...]
Will San Francisco’s Artist UBI Experiment be a Public Domain Expansion?
San Francisco has just released the final report of its Economic Recovery Task Force. There are a lot of good parts to it--reducing regulatory burdens associated with housing construction among [...]
Library Responses to Rising Subscription Costs
The pricing power that copyright protections grant academic journal oligopolists has enabled extraordinary price increases in the last few decades. Taira Meadowcroft, a Health Sciences Librarian at the University of [...]
How Occupational Licensing Regulations Cost State and Local Governments
In a time of high unemployment, placing a tax on finding new work seems an obvious misstep. Yet the recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has put a large fiscal [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, October 14th
News and Commentary Six New York Fed economists assess COVID induced dividend suspensions' impact on capital ratios and buffers. Telis Demos writes that additional stimulus spending may increase the effect [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, October 13th
Rent Check Last week were the oral arguments in Google v. Oracle. Here are my initial impressions from the day of the arguments. As everything moves online, so too does library [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, October 8th
News and Commentary Sammy Caiola reports for NPR's CapRadio that California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a bill allowing nurse practitioners (NPs) to diagnose patients and prescribe medications; still, NPs [...]
This Week in Land Use Regulation, October 9th
News and Commentary Elizabeth Weil and Mollie Simon investigate land use regulation's role in California's wildfires in a ProPublica piece. They find that over a quarter of Californians live in [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, October 6th
News and Commentary John Crabb forecasts a Biden-Harris administration's financial regulation in an International Finance Law Review article. A Fed proposal would roll recent stress tests in with a 2019 [...]
Google v. Oracle: A Room with Three Views
This morning, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Google v. Oracle. The practical implications of this case and the copyrightability of application programming interfaces (APIs) are significant because of [...]