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Techdirt is an American Internet blog that reports on technology's legal challenges and related business and economic policy issues, in context of the digital revolution. It focuses on intellectual property, patent, information privacy and copyright reform in particular.[1]
- ^ Matt Asay (18 Feb 2013). "John Lennon's lesson for public-domain innovation – IP protection hurting, not helping, US and UK". The Register. Archived from the original on 2016-11-30. Retrieved 2017-01-02.
TechDirt highlights research showing that extending copyrights increases prices and limits dissemination of knowledge, while also pointing out that people who believe patents cause innovation are simply confusing correlation with causation. If anything, patents inhibit innovation.