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creativity (focusing on patent, trade secret, and copyright protection) and protecting integrity of the commercial marketplace … copyright law and direct consumer protection statutes and public enforcement in the case of trademarks). …
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Human development, including not just economic growth but also the capability for longer, healthier and more fulfilling lives, depends on innovation and creativity. While various economic, technological, social and other factors influence innovative and creative activity, intellectual property...
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copyright protection – will disrupt cultural supply. The empirical findings of this study suggest that this concern is not … conventional economic analysis of digital copying. They also deflate the case for additional public expenditure on copyright …
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consumption by using copyright law or technological restraints. Licensing the software under proprietary license terms makes of it …
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Accounts of the ‘copyright industries' suggest that strong intellectual property rights help creative firms. However …
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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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Today, copyright policy is framed solely in terms of a trade off between the benefits of incentivizing authors to … legal debates concerning the fundamental role of copyright within scholarly publishing, as the incentive …-to-create conventional wisdom asserts that copyright is unnecessary for researchers who are motivated for non-pecuniary reasons. As a result …
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The ambiguity of the empirical results on the relationship between copyright and creativity calls for a better … theoretical understanding of the issue, possibly enlarging the analysis to other factors such as technology and copyright … between digitization and copyright enforcement affects the production and access to cultural goods. The model includes …
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In the context of the WTO, intellectual property rights (IPR) are codified in the TRIPS-agreement. While covering all the different types of IPR, landmark cases of the still young history of TRIPS have dealt with commercial copyrights. This paper summarizes the basic economics of the IPR branch...
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It is one of the orthodoxies of modern copyright law that the enjoyment and the exercise of the rights granted "shall …, translations and adaptations) of abstract authored work. For two seminal copyright acts of the period, the Prussian Act of 1837 and … to these requirements and plea for a reconsideration of "formalities" as redressing justificatory problems of copyright …
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