difficult to apply. It is, at the same time, vitally important in copyright and perhaps the most frequently raised and litigated … integral part of copyright's sorting mechanism for, on the one hand, granting authors intellectual property rights based on … exception for costly transactions, but rather as a central feature of the copyright system that ensures productive efficiency …

between the best practices approach and an institutional perspective on copyright and the relationship between the best …

(artists) but by intermediaries. Their profits, and therefore also the income of the artists, are endangered by copyright …

More intensive copyright enforcement reduces piracy, raises prices, and lowers consumer surplus. We show that these …-value buyers such as corporate and government users, the copyright holder has an incentive to charge super-monopoly prices, thereby … encouraging piracy among low-value buyers. Extending enforcement down the demand curve broadens the copyright holder s captive …

material. This paper explores the possible defense to the use of GIF files under EU Copyright Law by looking into the exception …

copyright, coupled with rapid technological advances and evolving consumer preferences, have seen an unprecedented proliferation … of regulatory arbitrage in the area of copyright law. This article offers a new scholarly account of the phenomenon … herein referred to as “copyright arbitrage.” Where economic arbitrage is often considered net-neutral, copyright arbitrage is …

The dominant explanatory/justificatory framework informing scholarly commentary on copyright law, policy and theory … today - certainly in the US - is law and economics. From this perspective, copyright law exists to underpin markets in … certain categories of 'information good' (copyright works). These markets in turn function to ensure that the private costs …

More intensive copyright enforcement reduces piracy, raises prices, and lowers consumer surplus. We show that these …-value buyers such as corporate and government users, the copyright holder has an incentive to charge super-monopoly prices, thereby … encouraging piracy among low-value buyers. Extending enforcement down the demand curve broadens the copyright holder's captive …

A growing number of empirical studies measure how extended copyright terms negatively affect the number of book titles …-English book markets. Although copyright generally maintains a strong effect on pricing in Finland and Sweden (with the exception …