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Bob Dylan’s songwriting catalog was purchased by Universal Music Publishing group. It’s the latest in a series of deals made in 2020 that benefit the songwriters and the companies which purchase the catalogs. Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen talked with the Wall Street Journal for a story about the strategies buyers can use to minimize state and foreign taxes. (Subscription required.)

Professor Nguyen noted that buyers of such catalogs often set up holding companies in Delaware to avoid state taxes. Abroad, purchasers can use holding companies in Singapore or Luxembourg with similar results.

In connection with Dylan and IP taxation, Professor Nguyen’s law review article, “The History of Intellectual Property Taxation: Promoting Innovation and Other Intellectual Property Goals,” co-authored with Professor Jeffrey Maine, was utilized as a source in an article in Forbes.

Professor Nguyen is an internationally known legal scholar renowned for her expertise in the intersections of Intellectual Property, Contracts, Secured Transactions, Bankruptcy, Licensing and Taxation. She is the Gerald L. Bepko Endowed Chair in Law at IU McKinney. During the 2018-2019 academic year, she was the Garvey Schubert Barer Visiting Professor of Law at University of Washington School of Law. Professor Nguyen received Indiana University’s Trustees Teaching Award in 2020. She is the recipient of the 2016 Grant Gilmore Award from the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers for her outstanding publications: "In the Name of Patent Stewardship: The Federal Circuit’s Overreach in Commercial Law," 67 Florida L. Rev. 127 (2015) and "Financing Innovation: Legal Development of Intellectual Property as Security in Financing,1845-2014," 48 Indiana Law Review 509 (2015).