(FTAs) of the European Union (EU). The paper introduces how the EU has constantly broadened the scope of the copyright … to build a TRIPS+ or acquis communautaire+ copyright system within the frames of the FTAs. The paper also shows that the …

exhaustion has tilted the balance between copyright and the protection of competition, secondary innovation, fundamental freedoms … inconsistencies in the judicial development of EU copyright. Building on these premises, and on the basis of a set of legal and … economic arguments, this paper advocates for the introduction of a general principle of digital exhaustion in EU copyright law …

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 …

The copyright protectability of outputs generated by or with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hotly … first time in copyright history, albeit in China, a court had to assess the validity of a company’s copyright claim over the … articles produced by the corporation’s algorithm. The protection with copyright of robojournalism is no longer just a buzzwordy …

that have set in motion an ongoing process of fundamental changes in the nature of copyright law. The video tape recorder … internet begat the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Napster begat Napster. We see the law morph right in front of our eyes …, but its ultimate form is still obscure. As a consequence, the future of copyright is up for grabs. We live in a magical …

Copyright requires us to distinguish between two different ways of transforming a “work of authorship”: “derivative … proximately from a work to copyright owners. Many people blame this expansionist tendency on a “propertarian” understanding of … copyright, and argue that the solution is to abandon any notion of copyright as property. I agree that current copyright …

US copyright law deserves credit for encouraging an outpouring of original expressive works, bequeathing us a rich … cultural heritage. But the copyright regime has grown too big and too powerful. We need to pursue a new direction in copyright … reform: toward freedom. We can best improve copyright by limiting its power, repairing its foundations, and opening up ways …

copyright system that has developed over the last century. It is possible to have a deep respect for copyright and still … recognize that a particular implementation of the idea of copyright can be flawed. The current copyright regime should give us … pause for several reasons: First, copyright is very different from traditional forms of property. Therefore we should be …