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Intellectual property rights and data mining
14:22 - 24:18 (09:56)
Intellectual property rights that do not permit large-scale database queries and data mining across big databases will close down fields of innovations, including medical research, genomics, and museum digitization. These copyright restrictions not only limit technological advancement but also have an impact on certain kinds of creators and cultural institutions.
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A book advance is an advance against royalties that the author can use to fund themselves to do the research and write the book.
14:22 - 17:10 (02:48)
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A book advance is an advance against royalties that the author can use to fund themselves to do the research and write the book. The author gets a share of the profit once the publisher has recouped the advance.
ChapterIntellectual property rights and data mining
Episode110. Who Owns the Words That Come Out of Your Mouth?
PodcastFreakonomics Radio
The intellectual property regime currently in place may limit innovation, such as large-scale database queries in medical research or digitizing old video tapes, due to restrictions on changing formats without permission from copyright holders.
17:12 - 24:18 (07:06)
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The intellectual property regime currently in place may limit innovation, such as large-scale database queries in medical research or digitizing old video tapes, due to restrictions on changing formats without permission from copyright holders.