Rob Arent and Ted Heitzman INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.
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Rob Arent and Ted Heitzman
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
• Copyrights (Artistic works)
• Patents (Industrial Property, inventions)
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PHARMACEUTICAL IP• Help the greatest number of people
• Utilitarianism
• Molecules and formulas need protection
• Recoup R & D costs
NO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION?• Music
• Movies
• Books
• Software
• Inventions
• Medicine
HOLLYWOOD V. HOME ENTERTAINMENT• Universal v. Sony
• Betamax
• VHS/DVD/Blu Ray
• Office Space: Budget: $10 mil
Box Office Gross: $10.8 mil
VHS/DVD sales: $6 mil
UTILITARIANISM• What effect does copying have on happiness?
• IP owner
• People copying
COPYING ETHICS• Categorical Imperative
• Copiers get “something for nothing”
• It doesn’t decrease the use and enjoyment any other person gets from their copy
MONEY IS POWER• Disney
• Apple
BREAKDOWN OF MODERN INTERPRETATION OF IP PROTECTION• Monsanto
• RIAA/MPAA
OPPORTUNISTIC LITIGATION• Patent trolls
• Sample trolls
• Rumblefish
• Cybersquatting
SOFTWARE• Patentable
• FOSS
INTERNATIONAL PIRACY• How does IP protection differ outside the US?
• Counterfeiting
• Software Piracy rates (2006)
• China: 82%
• Russia: 80%
• US: 21%
DRM AND DMCA• Digital Rights Management
• Copy protection software
• Digital Millennium Copyright Act
• Anti-circumvention of DRM
• Fair Use