In European countries, copyright protection is provided independent of any formal performance. According to the Italian … available by the widest dissemination. Copyright regards specific forms of creativity, primarily related to mass communication …

U.S. intellectual property law is firmly rooted in utilitarian principles. Copyright law is viewed as a means to give … proper monetary incentives to authors for their creative effort. Many European copyright systems pursue additional goals … moral rights protection should differ across the Atlantic and whether a purely profit-based theory of copyright law is …

U.S. intellectual property law is firmly rooted in utilitarian principles. Copyright law is viewed as a means to give … proper monetary incentives to authors for their creative effort. Many European copyright systems pursue additional goals … moral rights protection should differ across the Atlantic and whether a purely profit-based theory of copyright law is …

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

attributed to the territoriality of the copyright management regime. In most cases rights holders are in a position to issue …

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 …