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The article describes the challenges of copyright protection in the digital world. Starting from the observation that … copyright is one of the most disputed regulative systems in the 21st century, it analyses the reasons for the intensity of the … impact copyright law has undergone since computers and Internet access found their way into almost every household. What was …
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exhaustion has tilted the balance between copyright and the protection of competition, secondary innovation, fundamental freedoms … inconsistencies in the judicial development of EU copyright. Building on these premises, and on the basis of a set of legal and … economic arguments, this paper advocates for the introduction of a general principle of digital exhaustion in EU copyright law …
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The effects of (private, small-scale) piracy on the pricing behavior of producers of information goods are studied within a unified model of vertical differentiation. Although information goods are assumed to be perfectly horizontally differentiated, demands are interdependent because the...
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Despite the rapidly growing volume and economic importance of data in the digital economy, the legal framework for data ownership, access and trade remains incompletely defined in the EU and elsewhere. De facto data ownership dominates and often leads to fragmentation or anti-commons problems in...
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attributed to the territoriality of the copyright management regime. In most cases rights holders are in a position to issue …
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(artists) but by intermediaries. Their profits, and therefore also the income of the artists, are endangered by copyright …
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. Copyright law, in particular, has developed constantly to keep up with emerging technologies and the interests of creators … economics of copyright in the digital age, with a particular focus on the available empirical evidence. First, we discuss the … legal foundations of the copyright system and developments of length and scope throughout the era of digitization. Second …
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This paper quantifies the relationship between private-network file sharing activity and music sales in the BitTorrent era. Using a panel dataset of 2,251 albums' U.S. sales and file sharing downloads on a private network during 2008, I estimate the effect of file sharing on album sales....
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I quantify the effects of private-network music sharing on aggregate album sales in the BitTorrent era using a panel of US sales and private-network downloads for 2,109 albums during 2008. Exogenous shocks to the network's sharing constraints address the simultaneity problem. In theory,...
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of its IP negative status, with particular emphasis on copyright. This article considers the historical denial of … copyright protection for typefaces in the United States, and examines arguments both for and against extending copyright … protection to digital typefaces. It compares copyright law with alternative methods of protection for digital typefaces. It also …
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