The Hidden Cost of ‘Free’: The Big Steal Shines a Light on the Domestic Threat to U.S. IP Rights - P5

By Bruce Berman

January 9, 2025

Source: IP Watchdog

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Consider copyright as the canary in the coal mine. AI has sensitized more people to the abuse of IP rights. With incessant scraping, violations of privacy and rearrangement of existing content into new but potentially derivative works, generative AI has thrown a spotlight on copyright – the most widely held of IP rights. Publishers to policymakers, creators and consumers are increasingly aware that copyrights matter less to some businesses than others. Patents have been similarly commoditized, even if the nature of the protections differ. Hostility to and devaluation of both invention and creative expression rights, orchestrated in part by successful businesses that benefit, is already the biggest steal in U.S. history.

Anyone touched by IP, including investors, creators, lawyers and policymakers, will benefit from reading The Big Steal.  Journalists, too. It will help them to better understand how the IP system works and how it has been weakened, and why doing so threatens the very core of democracy. While China remains an IP challenge, The Big Steal is the most compelling book to date about the hidden domestic abuse of U.S. IP rights.

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