The two-volume set entitled Critical Concepts in Intellectual Property Law: Copyright brings together a thought …-provoking collection of landmark and recent scholarship on copyright. Section 1 of Volume I focuses on the history of copyright, with Tyler … focuses on copyright’s philosophical foundations, framed by the work of Justin Hughes and followed by revisionist perspectives …

copyrights continues to be scarce, primarily due to a lack of exogenous variation in modern copyright laws. To address this issue … and durability. Notably, there is no evidence of comparable benefits for extensions in copyright lengths beyond the life …

copyright protection, which imposes artificial scarcity so that authors can recoup creation and dissemination costs. Scholars … can overtax consumer attention.Reducing copyright protection in this new environment may worsen the costs of attention … by copyrighted works. If copyright protection is narrowed, new entrants have reduced motivation to create works that are …

be protected by copyright if created by a human being. But we are hopelessly naïve when confronted with whether and how … copyright law and neighboring areas of intellectual property protection should respond to the rise of AI. Indeed, current law is …

) stimulates innovation, especially in the digital era. And due to the lack of exogenous variation of copyright statute, solid … evidence on the causal effect of copyright protection is still scarce. In this paper, we investigate the effect of a special …

of copyright and of authors’ rights. Reconceptualizing notions key to these distinct types of laws, it then elaborates a …

copyright in works, the answer in legal history to the question of what is at the root of title is not so clear and that lack of …: what is at the root of title to copyright in works? The contestability that swirls around this question, which in part is … also a ‘history war’, can be distilled in a generalised way. One side perceives modern statutory copyright as having its …

This empirical paper discusses how copyright affects data mining (DM) by academic researchers. Based on bibliometric … knowledge, this is the first time that an empirical study bears out a significant negative association between copyright …

copyright protection – will disrupt cultural supply. The empirical findings of this study suggest that this concern is not … conventional economic analysis of digital copying. They also deflate the case for additional public expenditure on copyright …