Featuring expert contributors from around the world, this book offers insight into the vital theoretical and practical aspects of the economics of copyright. Topics discussed include fair use, performers’ rights, copyright and trade, online music streaming, internet piracy, copyright and...

Digital technologies have transformed the way many creative works are generated, disseminated and used. They have made cultural products more accessible, challenged established business models and the copyright system, and blurred the boundary between producers and consumers. This unique...

This collection of eminent contributions discusses the ideas and works of Mark Blaug, who has made important and often pioneering contributions to economic history, economic methodology, the economics of education, development economics, cultural economics, economic theory and the history of...

One concern with digitization in markets for information goods is that unauthorized, digital copying will reduce the number and quality of original works supplied. Despite a substantial literature on the effects of piracy on demand for recorded music, information on the supply-effects of digital...

Christian Handke is assistant professor of Cultural Economics in the Department for the Study of the Arts and Culture at Erasmus University and Visiting Research Fellow with the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management, Bournemouth University.

Das Urheberrecht prägt Märkte für Informationsgüter und damit einen wichtigen Teil der Gesellschaft. In Deutschland arbeiten zum Beispiel fast 4% der Erwerbstätigen in der Kreativ- und Kulturwirtschaft, die stark durch das Urheberrecht geprägt wird, und dieser Wirtschaftsbereich macht...

It is contentious to what extent the existing copyright system contributes to the positive development of the regulated sectors of society. The present report shows that substantially more musical works and movies have been released in recent years than before the diffusion of digital copying...