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Please join CSIS on Thursday, March 26 for a conversation with Prof. Jonathan Barnett on his latest book, The Big Steal: Ideology, Interest, and the Undoing of Intellectual Property. In this work, Prof. Barnett tells the story of how intellectual property rights were steadily hollowed out just as the digital economy took off. Under the rallying cry, “information wants to be free,” courts, Congress, regulators, the academy, and much of the tech industry embraced utopian policies that made it harder to enforce property rights over inventions and creative works. This change in the "rules of the game" produced a skewed ecosystem that favors platform-based business models over the "idea factories"—universities, "Little Tech," and content creators —that drive critical sectors of the U.S. innovation economy. This event is made possible through general support to CSIS. --------------------------------------------- A nonpartisan institution, CSIS is the top national security think tank in the world. Visit https://www.csis.org to find more of our work as we bring bipartisan solutions to the world's greatest challenges. Want to see more videos and virtual events? Subscribe to this channel and turn on notifications: https://cs.is/2dCfTve Follow CSIS on: • Twitter: https://twitter.com/csis • Facebook: https://facebook.com/CSIS.org • Instagram: https://instagram.com/csis/