Recent Activity and News

Peter Lewin’s paper, “Creativity or Coercion: Alternative Perspectives on Rights to Intellectual Property” has been accepted for publication at the premier business ethics journal, The Journal of Business Ethics.

Stan Liebowitz and Alejandro Zentner attended the annual meeting of the Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues in Singapore during July of 2006, and both presented papers.

Stan Liebowitz was elected president of the Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues.

The Journal of Law and Economics, one of the premier journals in economics, presented a mini-symposium on file-sharing as the lead in the in its April 2006 issue. Of the four papers, two are written by CAPRI scholars from UTD: Stan Liebowitz and Alejandro Zentner. Each of these papers had been in the CAPRI working paper series and the paper by Liebowitz received funding from CAPRI. The other two papers in the symposium are by Rob and Waldfogel, from the University of Pennsylvania and Bhattacharjee, Gopal, Lertwachara and Marsden, from the University of Connecticut.

In November of 2005 Stan Liebowitz was the keynote speaker at a regional meeting of the Business Software Alliance held in Kuala Lumpur. He presented a paper entitled: "Why Firms Win" which was based on his research on the role of quality and its relation to success in software markets.

In November of 2005 Stan Liebowitz participated in a "Working Group of Experts" at the headquarters of WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva. He discussed his work on the economics of copying, and in particular file-sharing, and agreed to author a chapter in the forthcoming WIPO manual on Measuring Copyright Piracy which will provide guidance for countries trying to deal with copying.

In January of 2006 Stan Liebowitz gave a talk in Rome on the economics of copying at an OECD conference about The Future Digital Economy.