Statistically-based Sources

Hayes, Simon. "Piracy Stats Don't Add Up." Australian IT. 7 Nov. 2006. 28 Aug. 2008 http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,20713160-15306,00.html.

I liked this source because it really brought to issue one of the biggest dilemmas in the field of intellectual property law. Copyright piracy is something that artists and their lawyers have been battling since the beginning of the World Wide Web. With the Internet, a person can easily find intellectual property and download it without facing a cost to own the work. When a person does this, the artist that created the work does not benefit from owning the property. In this article, it is stating that Australia lost nearly $361 million in revenue for intellectual property. This article is also stating that the numbers may be a little overblown, causing a hyperbole of statistics. Either way, it is still obvious that the advent of the Internet has caused some great financial loss for artists.

"WIPO Patent Report: Statistics on Worldwide Patent Activity (2007 Edition)." World Intellectual Property Organization. 2007. 28 Aug. 2008 http://www.wipo.int/ipstats/en/statistics/patents/patent_report_2007.html.

This site was absolutely stocked with statistics for patents in the world. I really learned a great deal of information that would be great for an article about patents. According to this site, there were 1.66 million patents filed worldwide in 2005. This was a 7% increase from the year before. This was interesting because the increase was more than was the norm every year since 1995. Since 1995, the average increase of patents filed each year was 4.7%. This site also goes into more detail by breaking the statistics into smaller categories, such as country of origin, residents filing for patents, non-residents filing for patents and many more. I feel that this is a must-have site for a journalist writing about this field because of the abundance of information it gives you. I recommend this site.