By Steven Tjoe In his forthcoming George Mason University Law Review article entitled “The Meaning of ‘Fair and Reasonable’ in the Context of Third-Party Determination of FRAND Terms,” Professor Damien […]
[Archived Post] Taking a Whack at the DMCA: The Problem of Continuous Re-Posting
By Steven Tjoe On Thursday March 13, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s (DMCA) notice and takedown system. Among the witnesses testifying at […]
[Archived Post] Improving the DMCA’s Notice and Takedown System
In conjunction with today’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on the DMCA, CPIP Senior Scholar Prof. Mark Schultz published a critique of the notice and takedown system this morning on AEI’s TechPolicyDaily Blog. In […]
[Archived Post] IP as a Source of Personal and Economic Freedom
CPIP’s Mark Schultz authored an excellent essay today in TechPolicyDaily.com advocating intellectual property as a source of personal and economic freedom. The essay, “A Free Market Perspective on Intellectual Property Rights,” […]
[Archived Post] Two More Reasons to Think Twice Before Changing Our Patent System
By Steven Tjoe Today, misguided fears of an explosion of patent litigation and the specter of the so-called “patent troll” problem continue to influence the popular perception of patent policy. […]
[Archived Post] The Failure of the DMCA Notice and Takedown System
Today, CPIP released an important new policy brief, The Failure of the DMCA Notice and Takedown System: A Twentieth Century Solution to a Twenty-First Century Problem, by Professor Bruce Boyden […]
[Archived Post] Copyright is Still Essential to a Free Market in Creative Works
By Matthew Barblan In the modern digital era, strong copyright protection is still an essential component of a flourishing free market in creative works. Viewed properly as a property right […]
[Archived Post] Mercatus’s Unhelpful Business Advice to the Creative Industries
By Mark Schultz Washington, D.C. is full of smart people with great ideas about how other people should run their lives and businesses. The more innocent of first hand knowledge […]
[Archived Post] Guest Post by Richard Epstein: The Dangerous Adventurism of the United States Trade Representative – Lifting the Ban against Apple Products Unnecessarily Opens a Can of Worms in Patent Law
The Dangerous Adventurism of the United States Trade Representative: Lifting the Ban against Apple Products Unnecessarily Opens a Can of Worms in Patent Law Richard A. Epstein In ordinary times, […]
[Archived Post] Guest Post by Wayne Sobon: A Line in the Sand on the Calls for New Patent Legislation
On June 9-11, the IP Business Congress sponsored by Intellectual Asset Magazine (IAM) hosted a debate on the resolution: “This house believes that the America Invents Act should be a legislative […]