The dominant explanatory/justificatory framework informing scholarly commentary on copyright law, policy and theory … today - certainly in the US - is law and economics. From this perspective, copyright law exists to underpin markets in … certain categories of 'information good' (copyright works). These markets in turn function to ensure that the private costs …

, like copyright law, use a fair use defense to address problems of market failure. Dean O'Rourke proposes just such a … defense that, while modeled on copyright doctrine, accounts for and protects patent law's particular incentive scheme …

In copyright, we are guided by a simple intuition: More revenue leads to more original works. But the relationship … between revenue and creative output is not so simple. Broadening copyright in order to increase the revenue associated with … same time, however, because copyright protection is uniform, broadening copyright also increases the revenue associated …

Music Authors. After the war, the field of copyright in the country re-borned with adoption of the Copyrights Law, being …

theory for collaborative creativity and its intersection with copyright law have been less examined. To fill this gap, we … look to team production and moral-hazard theories to understand how copyright law can facilitate or impede collaborative … copyright law, including the derivative-works right, the ownership structure of a joint work, and the work …

In IceTV Pty Ltd v Nine Network Australia Pty Ltd, the High Court transformed Australian copyright law, by placing a … in producing a work result in a denial of copyright on the basis that there is insufficient human authorship? And what … important in determining the extent to which the new Australian copyright law protects informational works, such as directories …

predominantly directed on copyright law at the expense of other fields of intellectual endeavour and adopts a US-centric viewpoint …

organisation. The study involved analysis of the copyright and intellectual property policies of universities in the UK and the … principal question of the study was the way in which university policies deal with the issue of ownership of copyright generated … interpretation of the employees’ copyright rule. At least in relation to core academic work (scholarly books and journal articles in …

to copyright law. Users’ interests are often examined through the prism of Limitations and Exceptions (L&E) to copyright …. However, this narrow view overlooks the users’ critical role in serving the goals of copyright law and may therefore … ultimately lead to inefficient outcomes. A user-rights approach holds that permissible uses under copyright law should be …