CRA Insights

IP Literature Watch: May 2025

June 11, 2025
Literature watch | Charles River Associates

We are pleased to present the latest edition of CRA’s IP Literature Watch. This issue contains pieces on antitrust & IP, licensing, litigation, innovation, law and policy, copyright, and trade.

Some highlights from the issue:

  • An essay that draws on empirical research into designers and their work to investigate the limits of intellectual property law for achieving its goal of progress in the design context;
  • An article unpacking the music supply chain, examining the interplay between artists’ contracts with record labels and labels’ contracts with streaming services, which prevent artists from gaining financial rewards; and
  • A paper examining the evolving landscape of human-AI collaboration, proposing a reorientation from the traditional legal notion of ownership of the intellectual work products towards a new focus on possession of ideas.

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