The development of intellectual property law involves policy considerations of industry, Congress, federal agencies, and international standard-setting organizations. We apply economic principles to help understand tradeoffs in regulations that affect copyrights, patents, and private litigation in the federal courts.
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TPI Aspen in Review: AI and Copyright Policy
TPI
Interview with Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S. Copyright Office Shira Perlmutter,…
Podcasts
Video Streaming and Its Lessons for Higher Education: Michael Smith on TPI’s Two Think Minimum
Michael D. Smith and Scott Wallsten
Two Think Minimum · Mike Smith on Streaming Market and Technological Shifts…
Commentaries and Op-Eds
How a market can make vaccine patents available to the world
Scott Wallsten
The Biden administration recently announced that it supported temporarily lifting patent protections on the…
Podcasts
Protecting Privacy and Moving the Evidence Ball Down the Field with Nancy Potok
Robert Hahn and Nancy Potok
Two Think Minimum · Protecting Privacy and Moving the Evidence Ball Down…
Does Pirated Video Crowd Out Non-Pirated Video? Yes—See How Much Here.
David Fish
Many of us are hooked on streaming video, but sometimes we will…
Research Papers
Do Pirated Video Streams Crowd Out Non-Pirated Video Streams? Evidence from Online Activity
Sarah Oh Lam, Scott Wallsten and Nathaniel Lovin
Are eSports Winning the Content War?
Lindsay Poss
What does Netflix CEO Reed Hastings worry about? Hulu, Amazon, or Disney’s…
Podcasts
“Music Licensing after the Music Modernization Act with Mitch Glazier and David Israelite” (Two Think Minimum Podcast)
Mitch Glazier, David Israelite and Sarah Oh Lam
Two Think Minimum Podcast Transcript Episode 014: “Music Licensing after the Music…
Press Releases
Music Licensing Reform: Singing the Same Old Song
Ashley Benjamin
Lenard and White argue in Regulation that Congress should change its tune…
