This article discusses the proposed copyright exception for private copying in the United Kingdom in the aftermath of the Hargreaves Review. It explores the options by which the exception shall retain a realistic scope if it is not accompanied by a fair compensation, and addresses the concept of...

This report offers the first independent empirical assessment of the European levy system as a whole.The research consolidates the evidence on levy setting, collection and distribution; reviews the scope of consumer permissions associated with levy payments; and reports the results of three...

"What is common to many is taken least care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others".Aristotle (384–322 BC) [cited after Gwartney, 1991, p. 67]Private property rights form an open-ended bundle of rights to possess, to use, to...