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Note: The Institute for Policy Innovation will be highlighting trade issues this week in recognition of World Trade Week.

With the extraordinary turbulence of the global markets, the Obama Administration’s emphasis on stimulating the U.S. economy and creating U.S. jobs, and the increasing recognition from congressional appropriators that a strong patent system is critical to an innovation-friendly government, it is more important than ever that Congress pass a permanent legislative solution to the damaging practice of taxing innovation by diverting user fees away from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

Copyright is actually a bundle of rights--rights that do not get treated equally. Technological convergence has highlighted the omission of equal treatment for performance rights. Music performers should be remunerated for the use of their work, especially as others are profiting from building a business around those same creations.