The Challenges Facing IP Systems: Researching for the Future
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While intellectual property (IP) has both enabled and responded to technological change, the Information Age with its Knowledge Economy, more particularly the internet and digitization expose it to formidable challenges. This essay identifies and inquires into the “trouble spots” in both substantive law and the institutional setting of the IP system. To this effect, it examines, inter alia, the ambivalent relationship existing between IP-based and non-IP based incentives for innovation and creation, the risks of over-rewarding creators/innovators by the availability of exclusive rights, the possible persistence of market dominance beyond the term of protection, and the likely asymmetry of the distributive effects of IP exclusivities. It also deals extensively with the challenges that the institutions of the IP system must face in the Information Age.
Source Publication
Kritika: Essays on Intellectual Property
Source Editors/Authors
Peter Drahos, Gustavo Ghidini, Hanns Ullrich
Publication Date
2020
Volume Number
4
Recommended Citation
Dreyfuss, Rochelle C., "The Challenges Facing IP Systems: Researching for the Future" (2020). Faculty Chapters. 1166.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/1166
