# Joint research from Professor Petra Moser on examining the effects of copyrights on science is cited

1 Faculty News February 27, 2020 ![The Economist logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025662.jpg?itok=1_MW1PTy)>

Excerpt from [The Economist](https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/02/27/how-to-get-more-innovation-bang-for-the-research-buck) -- "But these schemes do not always have the desired effects. Intellectual-property protections make it more difficult for others to make their own contributions by building on prior work. Barbara Biasi of Yale University and [Petra Moser](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/petra-moser) of New York University studied the effects of an American wartime policy that allowed domestic publishers to freely print copies of German-owned science books."

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