From diseases to climate change, we need new solutions more than ever – yet patents may be slowing us down. For example, there is growing evidence new drug development speeds up once patents expire.
- ARC Future Fellow; Professor; Director, Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia, The University of Melbourne
Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow’s new book reveals the tricks behind ‘Chokepoint Capitalism’ – how big corporations use low prices to lock in users and creators, while locking out real competition.
Many important Australian books have found themselves out-of-print and hard-to-find. The Untapped project aims to change that, bringing classics to a library near you.
Here are five lessons we can learn from elsewhere to help Australian authors earn more money.
Individual creators get too small a share of copyright’s rewards. What Bryan Adams is proposing in Canada could also work in Australia to help authors get paid and keep works available to the public.
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