A growing number of empirical studies measure how extended copyright terms negatively affect the number of book titles in print. Many of these same studies also demonstrate significant differences in the pricing of bound volumes, ebooks, and audio books editions of public domain and copyrighted...

In practice, copyright is treated by economists and analysts as a tradeoff between monopoly and the incentive to create new works. This tradeoff is between stark opposites – power and innovation. Yet, in reality, copyrighted works face numerous close substitutes. In this paper, we formally...

Conventional wisdom holds that the European Union has opted to apply its competition law to the exercise of intellectual property rights to a much greater extent than has the United States. We argue that, at least in the context of copyright protection, this conventional wisdom is false. While...

Die Arbeit behandelt die Musikverwertung mit Hilfe von Tonträgern und Netzen. Nach einem kurzen Abriß der Tonträgergeschichte wird der bestehende Rechtsrahmen im nationalen, europäischen und internationalen Kontext dargestellt. Die Anreize zur Musikproduktion und -verwertung werden...