Intellectual Property

In advance of a possible ruling on Google v. Oracle coming this Thursday, I’d like to consider the implications of two potential outcomes in the case. I’ve written previously on [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

News and Commentary I've written a commentary on the need to make the COVID-19 vaccines open via compulsory licensing, the suspension of intellectual property protections abroad, and voluntary measures by [...]

In The Nation, Dean Baker has an article about the power of intellectual property rights as a driver of inequality: The effect of [expanding copyright and patent protections] was to [...]

News and Commentary In USA Today, Charles Duan and Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) argue that it's necessary for taxpayers to assert their rights as the primary investors of the coronavirus [...]