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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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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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. 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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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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The Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive ((EU) 2019/790) has been a subject of heated and …, amongst those emotive catchphrases lies a foundational discussion on the purposes of copyright law, and how its relationship … appear to dominate the debate: (a) Technocratic (responding to tech development by updating the copyright framework), (b …
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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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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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In copyright, we are guided by a simple intuition: More revenue leads to more original works. But the relationship … between revenue and creative output is not so simple. Broadening copyright in order to increase the revenue associated with … same time, however, because copyright protection is uniform, broadening copyright also increases the revenue associated …
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to copyright law. Users’ interests are often examined through the prism of Limitations and Exceptions (L&E) to copyright …. However, this narrow view overlooks the users’ critical role in serving the goals of copyright law and may therefore … ultimately lead to inefficient outcomes. A user-rights approach holds that permissible uses under copyright law should be …
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