New Additions to the Roster New York City, a creative center with a surging technology sector, is the perfect setting for the study of innovation and intellectual property. NYU Law has recently snagged three stars in the field.
Jeanne Fromer, who received an inaugural Young Scholars Medal from the American Law Institute for her scholarship, co-teaches the Innovation Policy Colloquium, among other courses. She is fascinated by copyright conundrums such as: Are copyright laws antiquated in an era of streaming videos and downloading music? How does software, an incredibly important but more recent part of the economy, fit into copyright law?
Jason Schultz has a focus on patent reform and a passion for technology. The founder of the Patent Busting Project at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit digital rights group, Schultz joined the Law School this year as director of the new Technology Law and Policy Clinic. His scholarship focuses on the ongoing struggle to balance intellectual property regimes with the public interest.
Christopher Sprigman studies how legal rules affect innovation and the deployment of new technologies. His recent book, The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation, looks at a broad range of fields that innovate in the absence of intellectual property, from fashion to food to football, and makes the provocative argument that copying can actually incentivize innovation.
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