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Protection for Whom? Creditor Conflicts in Bankruptcy.

Longhofer, S.D.; Peters, S.R. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

In this article we provide a rationale for bankruptcy law that is based on the conflicts among creditors that occur when a debtor's iabilities exceed its assets. In the absence of a bankruptcy law, the private debt-collection remedies that creditors pursue when a debtor is insolvent result in an...

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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

The composer has historically been at the top of the tree in the music industry; most royalties due to artists flow back to composers/songwriters rather than performers. Over the last few decades, the enactment of stronger performers’ rights has sought to redress this historical imbalance by...

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Deconstructing data protection: the 'Added-value' of a right to data protection in the EU legal order

Lynskey, Orla - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Article 8 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights sets out a right to data protection which sits alongside, and in addition to, the established right to privacy in the Charter. The Charter's inclusion of an independent right to data protection differentiates it from other international human...

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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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Cyber trust and crime prevention: a synthesis of the state-of-the-art science reviews

Collins, Brian S.; Mansell, Robin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This report provides a synthesis of theoretical and empirical work in the sciences and social sciences that indicates the drivers, opportunities, threats, and barriers to the future evolution of cyberspace and the feasibility of crime prevention measures. It is based on 10 state-of-the-art...

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Political economy, power and new media

Mansell, Robin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

of the older media and signs of a greater receptivity to such an approach in some studies of Internet developments and …

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Digital goods and the new economy

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

Digital goods are bitstrings, sequences of 0s and 1s, which have economic value. They are distinguished from other goods by five characteristics: digital goods are nonrival, infinitely expansible, discrete, aspatial, and recombinant. The New Economy is one where the economics of digital goods...

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Net neutrality discourses: comparing advocacy and regulatory arguments in the United States and the United Kingdom

Powell, Alison; Cooper, Alissa - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

, and what the implications of those differences are for the Internet. Drawing on mass media, advocacy, and regulatory … for the Internet to continue to thrive as a global medium. …

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Primary school children’s internet skills: a report on performance tests of operational, formal, information, and strategic internet skills

Van Deursen, Alexander J.A.M.; Görzig, Anke; Van … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

) Internet skills and their potential predictors were assessed among a sample of Dutch primary school children. The findings … suggest that primary school children possess sufficient levels of fundamental but not advanced Internet skills and, hence …, might not be able to make best use of important opportunities the Internet has to offer. Children employed very ineffective …

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Is the internet really new after all?: the determinants of telecommunications diffusion in historical perspective

Perkins, Richard; Neumayer, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Recent anxieties over the digital divide have centered on the observation that uptake of the Internet is shaped by a … number of identifiable, place-based factors. Yet is the Internet any more a product of material geography than previous …

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