Preface: In 1776, Adam Smith diagnosed an oversupply in “that unprosperous race of men” called men of letters: “…their numbers are every-where so great as commonly to reduce the price of their labour to a very paltry recompense.” (The Wealth of Nations, Book I, Ch. 10) By the...

British and German law provide diametrically opposed answers to the question of the transferability and thus the marketability of copyright property assets. Under the current legal situation in Germany, the non-transferability doctrine of copyrights is maintained. The law thus continues to...