how to protect copyrighted works effectively. Public (legislative) and formal (legal) efforts to prevent copyright …

As scientists are motivated by readership rather than by royalties, one might doubt that academic copyright is required … open access regime by abolishing academic copyright is currently intensively being discussed. We contribute to this …

Copyright affects the distribution of creative content. Taking works off copyright promotes their availability, which … copyright on the availability and price of books when incentives to create new works are not affected. I evaluate the welfare … impact of the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act by estimating differences in consumer and producer surplus across a …

Free/Open Source Software (FOSS). In a seminal paper Bessen and Maskin (2006) argue that in a dynamic sequential innovation … same conditions, a copyright strategy could result in a tragedy of the anticommons (Heller 1998, Buchanan 2000). We study … 'innovate' producing words from given letters, and face the choice to copyright or copyleft their words. Subsequent words can be …

source software to run their business smoothly.Proprietary software is protected by copyright and/or patent that confers the …This thesis aims to provide clues on how software developers could use and distribute proprietary software and open … rightholders exclusive rights for the use of their software. The developers of proprietary software use their exclusive rights to …