If we follow Australia down the road of trade protectionism for movies, then we all lose out. What do I mean? Well the incentives for trade protectionism is a prisoner’s dilemma. As Peter Jackson says, if Australia starts subsidising movies we need to do the same or we will miss out on productions – as …
Category Archive: Intellectual property
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Mar
11
2009
Google Books
Google Books continues to expand their range of available material and it’s great to see. Not only does it increase access to information but, for the material that you have to purchase, it increases the efficiency of the market for information. Previously you had to buy an entire textbook, or purchase a membership at an …
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Jan
12
2009
Licensing fees vs open source software
I work (if you can call it that…) for an organisation that uses a suite of Microsoft applications. In addition to Windows XP it runs MS Office. For the ability to do this, a licensing fee, probably quite sizeable (I don’t know though) is paid to Microsoft. Now, it was pointed out to me that …
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Nov
13
2007
Patents not so evil after all…
We’ve previously blogged about the potential for patent protections to restrict innovation when inventions are sequential. However, Sudipto Bhattacharya and Sergei Guriev suggest on VoxEU that the research we cited by Bessen and Maskin might be misleading. In particular they point out that there is a ‘third way’ that knowledge can be treated. Rather than …
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