Protecting Intellectual Property in the Digital Age and Beyond

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Harnessing the Gig Economy

The growth of the U.S. creative economy- product of that massive, exceptionally brilliant, rag-tag group of artists, designers, inventors, makers, dreamers, creators, entrepreneurs and visionaries- seems unstoppable.

How high can we go? Even the furthest-seeing futurists and wealthiest tech billionaires can only guess.

The summit of Silicon Valley is coming into view, and the titans of big technology companies are weeping, as there are no more worlds to conquer.

After fits and starts, and fits again, the U.S. creative economy is unquestionably booming. How to handle an economy predicated on more and more artists, innovators and inventors, freelancers and start-ups, is a problem world governments, big and small, have only begun to grapple with.

Should we treat gig economy workers as employees, as California recently tried- and somewhat spectacularly failed- to do? Or should we let gig workers and digital nomads fend for themselves by forming labor unions specific to their niche industries?

In financial world built so heavily on traditional employment- and the…