Intellectual property rights (IPRs) enable the knowledge economy. It is a delicate balancing act to give right holders the degree of leverage prerequisite to serious investment in–while not turning IPRs into a lower-risk and more profitable substitute for–innovation.
IP disputes, especially patent infringement lawsuits, present difficult questions at the intersection of law and technology–and often economics–to courts, counsel, parties and everyone else who takes an interest in those matters. It’s just a fact that mainstream media struggles to follow those proceedings–and even more so, to identify the outcome-determinative issues before and the actual consequences after a decision.
ip fray‘s mission is to figure out what really matters and to explain it to a broader audience: not to the average citizen, but to the ones who need and/or really want to know.
Shortly before the end of 2023, ip fray launched simultaneously with its two sibling sites, ai fray (on the regulation of Artifical Intelligence) and games fray (on games industry issues including–but not limited to–regulation). All three projects share the goal of taking the coverage of complex and contentious issues to the next level, and there are plans to produce audiovisual media as well.
On its half-birthday, ip fray announced that it will become a subscription service on or before January 1, 2025 (June 23, 2024 ip fray article).
