Cooking is like software – no copyright in the menu
Interesting decision from a first instance court in Liège, Belgium. Cooking recipes are not covered by copyright. As such, that may not be such a shock. Imagine having to pay a royalty to the earl of...
View ArticleLego builds new Intellectual Capital
It is probably fair to say that most people know Lego, the little building block toys. Most of us played with them as children. I remember that I didn’t actually like to construct the things Lego...
View ArticleSocial Media & IPR – Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
Among Intellectual Property professionals, it’s a surefire hit: “have you read Facebook’s IP terms”? Tone is important – think of a TV preacher asking: “have you been tempted by Satan!?”. Poor...
View ArticleHow can IP exchanges work?
Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) are curious beasts. They are, in essence, negative rights: they give the right to block other people from doing something. Unlike normal property rights, they are...
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Will Big Data kill Intellectual Property Rights?
With the explosion of data, IPRs are under threat. IPRs aim to create artificial scarcity, but the growth of data under IPR protection is vastly inferior to the growth of non-protected (“open”) data....
View ArticleThree insights into how Intellectual Property can benefit an innovative...
All technology businesses innovate. It is what they do. They tackle a market opportunity by innovating. But innovation can happen at any level. It can be inventing a new technology, it can be process...
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When everything becomes software, how does that affect IP strategy?
Everything becomes software Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape and currently co-founder and general partner of the venture capital firm Andreessen-Horowitz, wrote in August 2011 in the Wall Street...
View ArticleCopyright in the digital age: the UK’s “Digital Copyright Exchange...
In earlier blogs, I have analyzed why the current copyright system is not fit for the digital age. I have also provided some elements of a solution; one key element I see for any survival of the...
View ArticleIs there Intellectual Property in Money?
Usually, the question is asked the other way around: “is there money in Intellectual Property?” But as technology is creating new kinds of currencies and new ways to pay, the question of Intellectual...
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Is Data really the New Oil?
It is sometimes said that “data is the new oil”. The expression is almost ten years old – according to Forbes, it was coined first by Michael Palmer. But is data really the new oil? Well, let’s see why...
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