Monday, September 24, 2018

Five Lessons From The Toy Wars: How Intellectual Property Laws Can Restrict Your Career Mobility; Forbes, September 23, 2018

Michael B. Arthur, Forbes; Five Lessons From The Toy Wars: How Intellectual Property Laws Can Restrict Your Career Mobility

"Orly Lobel’s new book You Don’t Own Me recounts the knock-down, drag-out and still unfinished "toy wars" between Mattel, distributor of Barbie dolls, and nearby rival MGA Entertainment, distributor of the Bratz collection. The book shows how those wars “challenge the right and freedom to leave jobs, compete with incumbent companies, control ideas and innovate.” What Lobel calls "the criminalization of employment mobility" is a serious problem, and this article offers some first steps to protect yourself from its grasp."

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