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A Musical Idea: Joint IP management in global health

A guest blog post on the R4D consultation event on patent pools

In The Gridlock Economy, Columbia Law School professor Michael Heller explains how too much ownership wrecks markets, stops innovation, and costs lives. Ownership itself isn’t the problem, he writes; it’s that today’s increasingly complex economies get stuck in yesterday’s property rights management.