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...

This article endeavors to explain the nature of some copyright criticisms and expose the fallacies behind them. This article demonstrates that applying a general label of “monopoly” to what are actually only property rights, is a misleading (although rhetorically effective) tactic....

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...

Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf recently responded to some of my negative assessments of their influential 2007 piracy article. In this article I analyze their responses to my assessments. Several of their responses have the appearance of being plausible if they are read without...

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...