How To Recognize And Protect Your Intellectual Property
If you operate a business, you have intellectual property. Simply put, intellectual property is any commercial information that you possess, which gives you an economic advantage over your competitors....
View ArticleResearchers, Librarians, Filmmakers and Teachers Are Waiting for the...
By Kylie Pappalardo, Queensland University of Technology In August, the communications minister announced a series of changes to copyright laws to “better support the needs of Australians and public...
View ArticleUS-Backed Vaccine Patent Waiver: Pros and Cons Explained
By Farasat Bokhari, University of East Anglia The Biden administration has now agreed to back a proposal to suspend intellectual property protection for COVID vaccines. This is a break from US...
View ArticleCanada Is Virtue Signalling While Waffling on Global Access to COVID-19 Vaccines
By Joel Lexchin, University of Toronto Based on public statements, it’s easy to come to the conclusion that Canada is working to improve global access to COVID-19 vaccines. This quote comes from an...
View ArticleHow To Develop Brand Intellectual Property and Monetize It
By BRYAN WISH For over 2 years, BW Missions has worked with Rich Keller to build the branding arm of our business. Rich has more than 25 years of experience in corporate branding and marketing at...
View ArticleInternational Humanist Party: “Industrial Property Is Theft”
By Partido Humanista Internacional When a legal tool enthrones monopolies Since 2000 and by approval of the General Assembly of the United Nations, 26 April was established as World Intellectual...
View ArticleWHO Guidelines on Human Genome Editing: Why Countries Need To Follow Them
By Sheetal Soni, University of KwaZulu-Natal The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently called on countries to stop any research that might lead to the birth of genetically edited human beings. The...
View ArticleWhen We Keep Giving Money to Rich People, Why Are We Surprised by Inequality?
By Dean Baker I know I harp a lot on all the ways we structure the market to redistribute income upward, but that’s because we keep digging in deeper on these policies, and almost no one else talks...
View ArticlePatent Monopolies and Inequality: When We Give Rich People Money, Why Does...
By Dean Baker In recent weeks there have been several articles noting the enormous wealth that a small number of people have made off of the vaccines and treatments developed to control the pandemic....
View ArticleRoss Douthat and the Great Resignation
By Dean Baker I don’t agree with much about Ross Douthat’s politics, but he often makes some interesting points. He did so in his latest column on the Canadian “truckers” protest against vaccine...
View ArticleFighting Inflation the Fun Way: Starting at the Top
By Dean Baker With the high rate of inflation reported for March, the chorus for strong measures from the Federal Reserve Board is growing louder. The idea is that the Fed needs to substantially...
View ArticleRegulating AI: 3 Experts Explain Why It’s Difficult To Do and Important To...
By S. Shyam Sundar, Penn State; Cason Schmit, Texas A&M University, and John Villasenor, University of California, Los Angeles From fake photos of Donald Trump being arrested by New York City...
View ArticleQuick Thoughts on AI and Intellectual Property
By Dean Baker There has been a lot of concern in recent days about the impact of AI on people’s intellectual property. The latest AI programs screen millions of documents, songs, pictures, and videos...
View ArticleShould We Be Worried About Deepfake Songs?
The latest collaboration between Canadian singers Drake and The Weeknd, titled Heart on my sleeve, a paen to actress Selena Gomez, has gone viral, largely because neither Drake nor Abel Makkonen...
View ArticleGenerative AI Safety: Narrowing Global Digital and Internet Dominance
There is a recent story, The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. Use of Copyrighted Work, stating that, “Besides seeking to protect intellectual property, the lawsuit by The Times casts ChatGPT...
View ArticleHow Many Times Will AI Prove That Our Copyright Laws Are No Longer Fit for...
Once again, the U.S. Copyright Office has refused to register an image because it was originally generated by an algorithm, despite the fact that its author, throughout a creative process starting...
View ArticleCould a Court Really Order the Destruction of ChatGPT? The New York Times...
By João Marinotti, Indiana University On Dec. 27, 2023, The New York Times filed a lawsuit against OpenAI alleging that the company committed willful copyright infringement through its generative AI...
View ArticleNavigating the Waters of Plagiarism: Unveiling the True Cost of Stolen Creations
In the vast ocean of social media, where ideas flood our screens like waves crashing on the shore, a disconcerting truth lurks beneath the surface – people steal other people’s content. Whether it’s a...
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