Intellectual property in (huge) numbers

Charles Goldfinger

Statements about critical importance of IP to the contemporary economy have now become commonplace. Rarely, however, are those statements backed by concrete data. Two recent documents put in a sharper focus the sheer size and resulting challenges of the IP economy.

The first document is the is International Intellectual Property Alliance’s 2006 economic report on the economic import of the copyright in the US. The alliance is a private lobby group formed in 1984 to represent US copyright-based industries in bilateral and multilateral efforts to improve international protection of copyrighted materials. It comprises trade associations representing various segments of the U.S. copyright community and companies producing and...

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