The purpose of this study is to investigate the copyright protection of intellectual property under vertical relations … investigate the effect of copyright protection by modeling the cases of perfect protection, partial protection and no protection …. We analyze whether copyright benefits social welfare. We explain the policy implications of our results for the …

negative effects due to an erosion of copyright law. Our law and economics analysis of the Book Search Project suggests that … – from a copyright perspective – the proposed settlement may be beneficial to right holders, consumers, and Google. For …

The activity of the copyright collecting societies had been scrutinized by many antitrust authorities. The paper … abusing practices of Polish copyright collective society – ZAiKS. The paper concentrates on the economic aspects of the …

in the copyright term, progress in communication technologies favoring market concentration by stars, and the enlargement …

The optimal term of copyright has been a matter for extensive debate over the last decade. Using a simple model we … current copyright term and implies that existing copyright terms are too long. …

The optimal level for copyright has been a matter for extensive debate over the last decade. This paper contributes … several novel propositions about the optimal level of protection. Specifically, we demonstrate that (a) optimal copyright is … optimal level of copyright will, in general, fall over time. The second part of the paper focuses on the specific case of …

DRMs are intellectual property institutions. They transpose the empirical principle of copyright, which implicitly … protection of DRMs, a private means of enforcing content excludability, participates in the "privatization" of copyright … — becomes the key to the vertical relations shaped by exclusive copyright. DRMs consequently represent a major stake in the …