Intellectual Property

News and Commentary It's finally out! After nearly 10 years, Google v. Oracle has been decided at the Supreme Court in favor of Google. Justice Breyer wrote the opinion, finding that [...]

News and Commentary The Hollywood Reporter writes about the $20 million copyright infringement claim made against Paramount Pictures based solely on a draft screenplay being circulated. The dispute centers on whether [...]

Rent Check Sean Mooney looks at an old article written by Jeff Bezos in 2001 about the problems associated with software and business method patents, and how he would fix [...]

Libraries across the country, despite being more valuable than ever, face a triple threat as a result of the pandemic. Their funding sources (state and local tax dollars) are being [...]

20 years ago last week, Jeff Bezos penned an open letter with his thoughts on patent policy. Following his conversation with Tim O'Reilly the prior week regarding Amazon’s 1-Click ordering [...]

Rent Check Sean Mooney writes about how despite added exemptions to the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA Section 1201 in 2015, plenty of farmers are having a tough time getting [...]

In The Washington Post, Matthew Kavanagh and Madhavi Sunder of Georgetown University called for the Biden Administration to end its objection to a pending waiver of intellectual property rights enforcement [...]

Earlier this month, the Niskanen Center hosted a webinar with Charles Duan of the R Street Institute discussing the role of intellectual property in the supply of vaccinations. Later that [...]

In 2015, the U.S. Copyright Office adopted an exception to the anti-circumvention restrictions found in Section 1201 of the Copyright Act allowing the owners of “computer programs that control the [...]

News and Commentary Since the debate surrounding the "cancellation" of six of Dr. Suess' works became a debate surrounding copyright terms, I wrote in Ordinary Times about the need for a [...]