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We survey the economic literature, both theoretical and empirical, on the choice of intellectual property protection by firms. Our focus is on the tradeoffs between using patents and disclosing versus the use of secrecy, although we also look briefly at the use of other means of formal...
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Recent technological changes may have altered the balance between technology and copyright law for digital products … market. As a result, we don't know whether the effective copyright protection currently available provides adequate …, researchers and policymakers thinking about the strength of copyright protection should supplement their attention to producer …
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This article exploits a differential increase in copyright under the UK Copyright Act of 1814 - in favor of books by … in copyright length. By comparison, placebo regressions for books by dead authors that did not benefit from the extension …
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Our analysis seeks to understand the impact of changing allocations of property rights on investment in new firms. We focus on the Cartoon Network, et al. v. Cablevision decision in the U.S., which narrowed the protection enjoyed by content creators (e.g., movie studios) and gave greater rights...
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. Yet economic analyses continue to be rare, partly due to a lack of experimental variation in modern copyright laws. This … paper exploits a change in copyright laws as a result of World War II to examine the effects of copyrights on science. In …
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Does the lack of international copyrights benefit or harm developing countries? I examine the effects of U.S. copyright … changed to allow foreigners to obtain copyright protection in the United States if certain conditions were met. Thus, this … episode in American history provides us with a convenient way of investigating the consequences of international copyright …
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Intellectual property treaties have two main types of provisions: national treatment of foreign inventors, and harmonization of protections. I address the positive question of when countries would want to treat foreign inventors the same as domestic inventors, and how their incentive to do so...
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New information technology has reduced marginal production and distribution costs of information goods to negligible levels and promises to revolutionize many industries. Unpaid copies of digital products can be as good as paid first-generation copies, and their availability can undermine the...
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set of strategies and government copyright policies in the digital era …
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Despite the concern that student plagiarism has become increasingly common, there is relatively little objective data on the prevalence or determinants of this illicit behavior. This study presents the results of a natural field experiment designed to address these questions. Over 1,200 papers...
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