The confusing case of Mr. Smith : Herchel Smith as litigant / Jeremy Phillips -- Auditing intellectual property rights by public research institutes / Michael Blakeney -- Some initial thoughts on copyright, human rights, and market freedom / Uma Suthersanen -- Changing mechanisms in copyright's...

This book reassesses central topics in cultural economics: Public finance and public choice theory as the basis for decision-making in cultural and media policy, the role of welfare economics in cultural policy, the economics of creative industries, the application of empirical testing to the...