IPRs IRL (Quah, D.)

Intellectual Property Rights
``\dot{A}/A = \phi(A^\ast, A)?''

• Organizations
  • Research on Innovation A non-profit organization involved in research on technological innovation and in disseminating findings to a broad audience, including academia and industry (directed by Jim Bessen)
• Copyright
  • Internet Copyright Proposals
  • Life on the Internet: Copyright
    (PBS)
  • ``The Copyright Grab''
    (Pamela Samuelson, Wired Archive 4.01 January 1996)
  • Opposing copyright extension
    (Dennis Karjala, Arizona State University)
• Patent
  • IBM Patents database
  • Public hearing on using the patent system to protect software-related inventions
    (US Patent and Trademark Office, January 1994, San Jose California)
  • Should program algorithms be patented?
    (Pamela Samuelson, 1990, CACM, August, 33(8), p.23)
• Egregious IPRs?
  • Against user interface copyright
    (Richard Stallman, Feb 1991, The League for Programming Freedom)
  • Insert advertising notice into software without changing its functionality
    (Gregory Aharonian, Apr 1994)
  • Wacky patent of the month
• Debate
  • Petition for a software patent free Europe
  • Database protection
    (Alan Sugarman, October 1997)
  • ``Intellectual property and the national information infrastructure''
    (Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights, US Information Infrastructure Task Force)
  • ``Intellectual property on the Net''
    (Esther Dyson, 03 Aug 1995)
  • ``Is information property?''
    (Pamela Samuelson, 1991, CACM, March, 34(3), p.15)
  • (... electronic data too?)
    (Pamela Samuelson, 1992, CACM, April, 35(2), p.27)
  • (... protecting computer databases?)
    (Ralph Losey, 1995)
  • (... protecting computer software?)
    (E. Robert Yoches, 1989, CACM, February, 32(2), p.169)
  • (... program algorithms patented?)
    (Pamela Samuelson, 1990, CACM, August, 33(8), p.23)
  • (... user interface copyright?)
    (Richard Stallman, Feb 1991, The League for Programming Freedom)
  • ``Selling wine without bottles: The economy of mind on the Global Net''
    (John Perry Barlow)
  • ``The Copyright Grab''
    (Pamela Samuelson, Wired Archive 4.01 January 1996)
  • The GNU Manifesto
    (Richard Stallman, The League for Programming Freedom)
• Collections and sites
  • Maastricht Portal on Intellectual Property Rights
  • EFF Intellectual Property archive
    (The Electronic Frontier Foundation)
• Software Piracy
  • Software Publishers Association
• The LAW
  • IP Unit, Cambridge University (William Cornish, Director)
  • {Berne Copyright Convention}++
  • The Copyright Website
  • European Commission Legal Advisory Board/Intellectual Property
  • Patents, copyrights, trademark
    (Nolo's Legal Encyclopedia)
• Technical economics -- Recent
  • Almost efficient innovation by pricing intellectual property (D. Quah, May 2002) How far can you go without intellectual property rights?
  • 24/7 Competitive Innovation (D. Quah, March 2002) Innovation in Arrow-Debreu markets without IPRs. Open Source Software
  • Matching demand and supply in a weightless economy: Market-driven creativity with and without IPRs (D.Quah, March 2002) Dynamic representative-agent general equilibrium, illustrating the simplest basic ex ante/ex post tradeoff underlying IP protection
  • Perfectly Competitive Innovation (M. Boldrin and D. Levine, March 2002) Growth and innovation without monopolies and increasing returns. Pricing ideas in Arrow-Debreu markets. [Might be more easily accessed from Michele Boldrin's research page.]

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