2021 was a miraculous year for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which led to confusion among observers of the phenomenon from both the art industry and regulatory authorities. This article provides a dispassionate analysis of the value of NFTs from an artist’s and intellectual property (IP)...

The modem copyright law is a creation of statute. The history of Indian copyrightjurisprudence reflects constant legislative revisions ofstatutory law to address technological developments. The Indian Copyright Act, 1957 has been amended six times, since its inception, in the years 1983, 1984,...

Drawing on the institution-based view of intellectual property (IP) rights, we argue that ‘distance’ in IP protection strength of MNEs’ home and host countries reduces the ability of MNEs to innovate at foreign subsidiary locations. We contend that this logic applies in both directions –...

Recent research attributes the decline in the labor share to a change from expensing to capitalizing intellectual property in the national income accounting, raising a possibility that the labor share decline is a measurement artifact. We find that these results are limited to the labor share of...

The author comments on Sasha Hoyt’s work concerning the impact of the Supreme Court’s patent eligibility decisions on private investment in the development of medical diagnostic technologies. As Hoyt discusses, medical diagnostic technologies enable the diagnosis of diseases and other...

Meeting the Paris Agreement target of maintaining global average temperature increases well below 2.0°C requires rapid innovation in climate-friendly, or green, technologies. A substantial literature has mapped the relationship between patent law and climate change, with the concern that...

Despite OECD efforts to combat profit shifting, recent literature shows that firms with higher ratios of intangible assets have increased income shifting activities. Intellectual property is used more than other forms of capital by MNCs to shift income from high to low tax jurisdictions....

The reference guide explores and presents how the protection of intellectual property (IP) rights applies and how it can be used in the sports industry. It analyzes how IP rights can help to foster the social and economic development of sports activities and the organization of sports events at...