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Dancing On The Grave Of Copyright?, Anupam Chander, Madhavi Sunder
Dancing On The Grave Of Copyright?, Anupam Chander, Madhavi Sunder
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The quarter century since Barlow’s writing allows us to assess his prophecy. The economy moved in the very direction that Barlow anticipated—from an economy focused on the ownership of things to an economy based on services and experiences. In high-income countries, services now account for three-quarters of the gross domestic product.
But intellectual property proved more resilient and adaptable than Barlow predicted. Intellectual property law both offered exceptions where necessary, while simultaneously expanding to cover new forms of creativity and activities. In this short essay, we argue that, for good or ill, intellectual property has reconfigured itself for an economy …
Health Care Costs And The Arc Of Innovation, Neel U. Sukhatme, Maxwell Gregg Bloche
Health Care Costs And The Arc Of Innovation, Neel U. Sukhatme, Maxwell Gregg Bloche
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Health care costs continue their inexorable rise, threatening America’s long-term fiscal stability, competitiveness, and standard of living. Over the past half-century, efforts to rein in spending have uniformly failed. In this Article, we explain why, breaking with standard accounts of regulatory and market dysfunction. We point instead to the nexus of economics, mutual empathy, and social expectations that drives medical innovation and locks in low-value technologies. We show how law reflects and reinforces this nexus and how and why health-policy-makers avert their gaze.
Next, we propose to circumvent these barriers instead of surmounting them. Rather than targeting today’s excessive spending, …