Tom Bell had an interesting post on valuing copyrights. His hero, IP man, goes around buying copyrights and setting them free, paying market price and establishing their value.

Maybe because it is a holiday weekend and my tummy is fully of gourmet goods supplied by the in-laws, but I'm puzzled by this post. It seems to me that there is already an open market in copyrights--not the consumer end, where one is buying the license not the rights, but the market between publishers, authors, producers, creators, and so on. Mind you, they aren't buying rights to set them free, but I am not sure why the purpose for which they are being bought matters. Tom?

posted by Solveig Singleton @ 4:01 PM | Tax-Funded IP

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