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 …

changes in price and communication using a new, extensive dataset of copyright infringement incidences by firms. The data …

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 …

, traditional copyright protection where the original content creators can block any use of their content provides more incentives … for content creators and also more remixing than no copyright protection. This is because that regime incentivises … traditional copyright protection in some instances by mitigating potential hold-up of follow-on creators by original content …