A CRA expert determined the fair market value of a publisher’s US copyrights in connection with bankruptcy proceedings and a dispute with the publisher’s unsecured creditors. CRA considered both the standard and premise of value and analyzed various valuation methodologies under the cost, market, and income approaches, ultimately utilizing the excess earnings valuation methodology under the income approach. The parties ultimately reached a favorable settlement that compensated the lenders and enabled the publisher to emerge from bankruptcy.
IP Literature Watch: March 2024
In this month’s IP Literature Watch we include an article analyzing four case studies of controversy over license design in open-source software and hardware...