Story Surveillance #4

Story Surveillance is a weekly exploration of IP opportunities around the world – including everything from book announcements and magazine articles to harder-to-find nuggets in social media, library vaults, lost manuscripts and other rich sources. The survey is carried out by the staff of Project Brazen for its own purposes, but we also share it with a small group of companies and collaborators.

In this week’s edition: What’s it like to live in a country where the absolute monarch fines himself a cow for breaking his own laws? Also, the story of the espionage warfare that spilled Oppenheimer’s secrets to the USSR, a supermarket billionaire who may be back from the dead, and much more.