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[Archived Post] Digital Single Market Must Protect the Rights of All Authors and Publishers

Cross-posted from the Mister Copyright blog. In 2015, the European Commission unveiled a plan to “create a free and secure digital single market” that would expand and standardize the EU’s digital economy for the benefit of consumers. The strategy was named the Digital Single Market and one of its objectives is to modernize the EU copyright […]

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[Archived Post] New Paper Addresses Flaws in Patent Holdup Theory

By David Lund Stephen Haber and Alexander Galetovic of the Hoover Institution’s Working Group on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Prosperity (IP2) published a new working paper on the problems with Patent Holdup Theory. In “The Fallacies of Patent Holdup Theory,” Professors Haber and Galetovic show that Patent Holdup Theory is based on three fundamental errors. […]