This paper uses data from an online database of music sampling to estimate the effect of copyright protection on the … that copyright protection causes an upstream work to be used less than half as often as it would if it were in the public … domain after conditioning on upstream-song and downstream-year fixed effects. Placebo regressions in which the copyright …

It is generally understood that the copyright system constrains downstream creators by limiting their ability to use … protected works in follow-on expression. Those who view the promotion of creativity as copyright's mission usually consider this … studies, and art history, this Article argues that contemporary copyright discourse has overlooked constraint's generative …

In the platform age, copyright-protected contents are primarily disseminated over the internet. This model poses … various challenges to the copyright regime that was mainly designed in and for the analog age. One of these challenges is … related to the fair balance between the interests of rightsholders and other members of society. Copyright norms try to …

Illegal downloading of copyright materials by end-users had its heyday in the early 2000s, with music, television, and …, and the damages varied between $222.000 and $1.92 million. Building on this copyright infringement case, the chapter … ponders the appropriateness of copyright infringement damages in a world where many infringers see no profit from their …

copyright. This chapter provides an overview of the Court of Justice of the EU's (CJEU) application of EU primary law provisions … in the field of copyright, with the aim to understand whether and with which impact non-market considerations have found … intervened on national copyright laws respectively from 1991 to the advent of the Lisbon Treaty, and from the Lisbon Treaty …

The role of copyright law in furthering social justice is blurred. On the one hand, copyright law aims to guarantee a … more or less exclusive protection. On the other hand, copyright law also intends to strike a fair balance between the …” in nature, and apply to all members of a given class of stakeholders. Copyright norms also further socially desirable …

After reviewing the standards of secondary liability for copyright and trademark infringement in the online context …

The Municipal Court of Appeals has confirmed that the parody defence is unavailable under Hungarian copyright law due …

The article describes the challenges of copyright protection in the digital world. Starting from the observation that … copyright is one of the most disputed regulative systems in the 21st century, it analyses the reasons for the intensity of the … impact copyright law has undergone since computers and Internet access found their way into almost every household. What was …