This paper examines a crucial difference between copyright and patents that requires very different analyses for each in the cases of notice effects and monopoly. In the first instance, notice costs will be shown to be much more import in the case of patents then they are in the case of...

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 benefit them, due to the concept of indirect...

New Internet-based technologies appear to threaten the ability of copyright owners to collect revenues for their intellectual creations, as epitomized by the recent public trials and tribulations experienced by Napster. As a response, new legislation against pirating and new technologies to...