First Copyright Chief Economist Sets Sights on Gender Disparity

Studying and addressing gender disparity in the US copyright system is a top priority of the government’s first copyright chief economist, Brent Lutes.

The Copyright Office plans to release in the near future the findings of a gender disparity study, Lutes said in an interview with Bloomberg Law. The study was conducted in collaboration with Joel Waldfogel, an economics professor at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management.

“I’ll be working with Joel to drill down on that to figure out why disparities exist in some areas and why they don’t in others and understanding the why is ...