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). …

. 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 …

the technological frontier. We discuss implications for copyright and AI policy. …

In the platform age, copyright-protected contents are primarily disseminated over the internet. This model poses … various challenges to the copyright regime that was mainly designed in and for the analog age. One of these challenges is … related to the fair balance between the interests of rightsholders and other members of society. Copyright norms try to …

The assertion that a 'license' is simply a 'contract not to sue' has become a commonplace in both copyright and patent … of the Copyright Act of 1976, which has been (erroneously) construed as a statute of frauds governing contract formation …

It has long been disputed in Europe under which conditions collective agreements on the re-muneration of copyright … holders are compatible with the ban on anti-competitive agreements in Article 101 TFEU. Privileging certain copyright … collective bargaining and collective agreements for copyright holders under EU competition law and what the Commission …