Economic growth begins with ideas, innovation and creativity. Since the signing of the Constitution, the U.S. has protected the fruits of creativity and innovation through intellectual property protection, primarily expressed as patents, trademarks, copyright and trade secrets.
As our economy has become even more dependent on innovation, intellectual property issues have been pushed to the forefront. The clashes have led some to question the value and even the legitimacy of IP protection. While some of these attacks come from the libertarian perspective, most originate from the same naïve socialist impulses that so demonstrably failed in the realm of real property—but somehow are seen as thoughtful with respect to IP.
IPI believes that creators have the right to own and control the fruits of their creativity, and that the IP system has done an admirable job of not only incentivizing innovation, but also making creative products and services available to the public and transferring technology to the developing world.
IP: The New Kitchen Table Issue?
Voters understand the age in which we live and are keenly aware of the value of IP to their household economy. Perhaps IP is well on its way to being a voting issue.
Fracking Isn't the Threat to Green Energy Innovation
The greatest threat to green energy innovation is not new energy resources, but rather disregard (such as India’s) of the rights of innovators through the international IP system.
Let's Finally Slay the "Trolls"
What needs to be done to finally slay the “troll” is to identify those who are truly bad actors and not impugn legitimate business models, allowing everyone to focus more clearly on the underlying problem.
Throwing Away the World's Biggest Economic Opportunity
So long as India blatantly disregards the intellectual property of its trading partners as part of its economic strategy, India will continue to throw away the world’s biggest economic opportunity.
If You Can't Beat Them, Sue Them,
So what happens when a whole country surrenders to the difficulty of commercializing patents and instead retreats to patent assertion as a means to shake down innovators? Look no further than France.
Copyright, Control and Censorship
The copyright review process can be a helpful occasion to update copyright law, but it should not give credence to baseless criticisms manufactured for ideological purposes.
Spotify analysis uncovers post-festival rise in music piracy
Research from Spotify has claimed that although the festival season increases demand for artists’ music, it leads to a rise in its acquisition through unauthorised channels.
Copyright
The Institute for Policy Innovation blasted recording artist Justin Bieber for a tweet that asked for a pirated copy of an Ultimate Fighting Championship fight in Las Vegas.
IP and the Bieb
Understanding that many are truly ignorant of the bounds of copyright, content providers (and also copyright critics) can now move from punishment fixation and together seek increasingly better ways to educate the public, and focus on the increasingly important role that copyright plays in our economy.
What is the cost of free?
By some estimates, a quarter of today's Internet traffic is copyright-infringed media and intellectual properties being used and consumed illegally. To protect their creative works in the online environment, moviemakers, musicians, and other artists are enlisting the help of powerful, legitimate, infrastructure companies such as Internet service providers; credit card processors; and search engines that can stifle piracy-enabling sites by making it difficult for them to operate and process transactions.
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