Tuesday was supposed to be the last day of the National Emergency Library’s operation. But after claims of copyright infringement filed by the publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, and [...]
Last week, Niskanen hosted a webinar on drug patents and COVID-19, where Brink Lindsey, Kodiak Hill-Davis, and I discussed the role of the patent system and its effects on potential [...]
Rent Check As an author whose works appeared on the National Emergency Library, Brink Lindsey explains why he's happy his books are available for all to read. You can watch [...]
This week, the Internet Archive shut down its National Emergency Library, created in March to expand on IA’s Open Library Project. This early closure is prompted by a lawsuit filed by four [...]
News and Commentary Another one bites the dust. MIT announced that it will end its contract negotiations with the publisher Elsevier, as "Elsevier was not able to present a proposal [...]
News and Commentary In Inside Sources, I make the case that substantive patent reform should be part of the recovery agenda. This includes not only tightening patent eligibility and protecting [...]
Recently, state governments have begun to claim a copyright interest in their official published codes of law, in particular arguing that ancillary materials such as annotations to the statutory text [...]
An entrepreneur finances her project via crowdfunding. She chooses a funding mechanism (fixed or flexible), a price, and a funding goal. Under fixed funding, money is refunded if the goal [...]
This paper examines the U.S. government’s intramural research and development efforts over a 40-year period, drawing together multiple human capital, government spending, and patent datasets. The U.S. Federal Government innovates [...]
I survey some recent research on the role of patents in encouraging innovation and growth in developing economies, beginning with a brief history of international patent systems and facts about [...]