This article examines three recent topics in copyright policy from an economic perspective: (i) term extensions, (ii) the orphan works problem, and (iii) mass digitization projects. Copyright term extensions will make it even more difficult to locate rights holders in the future than it is at...

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Speculative Microeconomics for Tomorrow's Economy -- Advertising Pricing Models for the World Wide Web -- Profiting from Online News: The Search for Viable Business Models -- The Economics of Copy Protection in Software and Other Media -- Aggregation and...