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Barron, Anne - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

The dominant explanatory/justificatory framework informing scholarly commentary on copyright law, policy and theory … today – certainly in the US – is law and economics. From this perspective, copyright law exists to underpin markets in … certain categories of ‘information good’ (copyright works). These markets in turn function to ensure that the private costs …

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The weightless economy in economic development

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

Can the increasing significance of knowledge-products in national income - the growing weightless economy - influence economic development? Those technologies reduce ''distance'' between consumers and knowledge production. This paper analyzes a model embodying such a reduction. The model shows...

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Property rights and economic development

Besley, Timothy; Ghatak, Maitreesh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

This chapter develops a unified analytical framework, drawing on and extending the existing literature on the subject, for studying the role of property rights in economic development. It addresses two fundamental and related questions concerning the relationship between property rights and...

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The de Soto effect

Besley, Timothy; Ghatak, Maitreesh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

This paper explores the consequences of creating and improving property rights so that fixed assets can be used as collateral. This has become a cause célèbre of Hernando de Soto whose views are influential in debates about policy reform concerning property rights. Hence, we refer to the...

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Rearranging the roles of the performer and the composer in the music industry – the potential significance of Fisher v Brooker

Mcdonagh, Luke T. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

that there may be cases where performers may be ‘authors’ for the purpose of copyright, as opposed to performers’ rights … of copyright in that arrangement, and by analogy, a share of licensing revenue from the exploitation of the arrangement …

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Incentives and invention in universities

Lach, Saul; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

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Matching demand and supply in a weightless economy : market-driven creativity with and without IPRs

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

Many cultural products have the same nonrival nature as scientific knowledge. They therefore face identical difficulties in creation and dissemination. One traditional view says market failure is endemic: societies tolerate monopolistic inefficiency in intellectual property (IP) protection to...

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Damages and injunctions in protecting proprietary research tools

Schankerman, Mark; Scotchmer, Suzanne - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

We investigate how liability rules and property rules affect the incentives to invest in research tools. We argue that it is hard to deter infringement under any of the enforcement regimes available. However, counterintuitively, a credible threat of infringement can actually be beneficial to the...

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Persona rights for user-generated content: a normative framework for privacy and intellectual property regulation

Shepherd, Tamara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

This article introduces the term “persona rights” as a normative conceptual framework for analyzing the language of regulatory debates around privacy and intellectual property online, mainly from a Canadian perspective. In using the concept of persona rights to interrogate and critique the...

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