In this month’s IP Literature Watch we include a paper studying the music streaming industry, where streaming services compete for exclusive licenses from music labels; a study providing a first look at the demographic characteristics, employer characteristics, earnings, and employment dynamics of inventors; an essay proposing a new legal construct of anti-patents; an article offering a critical overview of the range of options for state intervention and distinguishing different types of market failure that need to be prevented in different ways; a tribute focusing on developments emerging from the use of investor-state dispute settlement in the intellectual property area; an article refining and defending the utilitarian argument for copyright law; and a research paper analyzing the role of intellectual property rights in sustainable development in India.
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