Today is World IP
Day!
World IP Day is an
opportunity for ordinary people to take a step back and consider all the
economic benefits that have resulted from strong protections of intellectual
property rights. It’s an opportunity to promote greater public understanding about
the importance of IP rights.
Strong protections
of IP rights are important for ensuring that creators, content providers,
artists, innovators, and marketers can earn a return on their creative works
and the labor that makes them possible. Protection of IP rights incentivizes
more innovation, investment, and economic growth.
FSF President Randolph
May and Senior Fellow Seth Cooper coauthored two recent Perspectives from FSF Scholars regarding intellectual property
rights.
Randolph J. May, Seth L. Cooper, “George
Washington: Indispensable to Intellectual Property Rights in America,” Perspectives from FSF Scholars, Vol. 11,
No. 9, (February 26, 2016).
Randolph J. May, Seth L. Cooper, “The
Public Contract Basis for Intellectual Property Rights,” Perspectives from FSF Scholars, Vol. 11,
No. 13, (April 19, 2016).
Also, remember to
check out their book on Amazon
entitled “The
Constitutional Foundations of Intellectual Property: A Nature Rights Perspective.”
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