I’ve had no problem lecturing on intellectual property and shocker, I have no real experience in the field. I’m really excited to formally learn all the stuff I pretend to know already.

Professor Madhavi Sunder has issued a challenge to the students in the class to produce content (yay, content accomplished). It’s not for extra credit or anything, just seeing what comes of the challenge.

This is exactly the kind of experiment that people will produce without obvious incentives like money or even grade. I’ve been writing Prodigeek for more than two years with no attempt at monetary compensation. Instead, I write to not only invest in my career, showing my expertise to potential employers, but also to focus my interests. My interest in intellectual property blossomed thanks to reading and constantly writing about it. I used to think I was just going to study geek culture.

Certainly some brown nosing is incentive to make some great content for this class (good for you, my loyal reader(s)). The six figure law school graduate salaries might help. The key lesson - there’s more incentive than money to creating content. Maybe our IP laws should reflect that.