Modern copyright law is based upon a theory: increase copyright protection and you increase the number of creative works available to society. This theory has been the driving force behind an economic vision that has expanded, beyond all recognition, the original law created by the Statute of...

A recently developed penalized non-parametric maximum likehood estimate (NPMLE), of a non-increasing density, overcomes the so-called spiking problem in the well-known NPMLE. In this paper, some iterative procedures for choosing the optimal smoothing parameter in the penalized NPMLE are...