This paper examines a crucial difference between copyright and patents that requires very different analyses for each … the case of patents then they are in the case of copyright. In fact, notice costs will be zero for many if not most … copyright works. In the second instance, the claim that intellectual property creates a monopoly will be shown to be incorrect …

This paper reviews an estimate of the economic effect on the New Zealand economy of copyright term extension which was … Zealand's copyright period from 50 to 70 years would average around $55 million per year. Our review of this estimate suggests … on which it was based made major errors. First it focused only on the well-known social costs of copyright while …

This paper attempts to determine the impact of copyright on the prices of books, which is a task that has not, to my … knowledge, been undertaken before. Recent prices of best-sellers written between 1895 and 1940, some with copyright and some … weights to books that have greater unit sales, implies that copyright raises price by up to 14.5%. This bifurcated result …

did not have any American copyright protection, has been presented as evidence that authors can be well paid without the … need of copyright protection. The empirical support for this claim putatively comes from a UK Royal Commission Report … copyright. Further, two additional historical factors, a cartel-like agreement among leading American publishers and an American …

This article endeavors to explain the nature of some copyright criticisms and expose the fallacies behind them. This … copyright) amounts similar to what they could have earned with copyright, is shown to be a largely fanciful story …

This is a report performed for the Canadian government in 1981 on the impact of copying (photocopying) on copyright … holders. As far as I know, it was the first theoretical claim that copying might not hurt copyright holders, and might even … copyright holder can engage in price discrimination. Anyone interested in the issue of copying in the Internet era, or who wants …

The case of Eldred v. Ashcroft, which sought to have the Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA, aka Sonny Bono Copyright … case, is the articulation of the economic issues involved in copyright extension. The articulation of those issues is not … creativity that confers benefits immediately. Third, the Eldred economists neglect certain features of copyright law, such as …

New Internet-based technologies appear to threaten the ability of copyright owners to collect revenues for their …, whether technologies that enhance the ability to create unauthorized copying are destructive to the principles of copyright … technologies have not had dire consequences for copyright owners. This paper, after examining a history of previous copying …