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