Intellectual Property Is a University’s Best Friend

Intellectual Property Is a University’s Best Friend
Joseph Esposito, The Scholarly Kitchen, January 7, 2013.

Joseph Esposito writes, "it simply is not in the interests of major research institutions to support the liberalization of IP policies when they are themselves the biggest creators of such IP in the world." When the interests of the universities clash against the needs of wider society, who should win? And if he answer is "not society," then we must ask the follow-up question: should society continue to fund these institutions. More...