negative effects due to an erosion of copyright law. Our law and economics analysis of the Book Search Project suggests that … – from a copyright perspective – the proposed settlement may be beneficial to right holders, consumers, and Google. For …

(artists) but by intermediaries. Their profits, and therefore also the income of the artists, are endangered by copyright …

Copyright law employs a o ... …

implications of unauthorized use and copyright protection; (3) empirical evidence on the effects of copyright protection on rights … holder revenues and innovation as well as alternatives to copyright to help finance creativity; (4) key topics in the …

The assertion that a 'license' is simply a 'contract not to sue' has become a commonplace in both copyright and patent … of the Copyright Act of 1976, which has been (erroneously) construed as a statute of frauds governing contract formation …

Copyright protection of the restoration and reconstruction of works, especially of public domain works, is a … controversial matter. One of the pillars of copyright protection, the requirement that the work is original, that is, it originates … from the author and does not derive entirely from a pre-existing work (so the UK copyright law for authorial works), or …

The Hungarian National Report on the Balance of Copyright was prepared for the XVIIIth International Congress of … law and copyright theory in respect of the issue of limitations and exceptions in the copyright regime. The report … decisions and the expert opinions of the Hungarian Copyright Expert Council …

As scientists are motivated by readership rather than by royalties, one might doubt that academic copyright is required … open access regime by abolishing academic copyright is currently intensively being discussed. We contribute to this …

This paper reveals how theory of copyright has developed from history. From The Statute of Anne in 1710 to Wheaton v …. Peters in 1834 where different aspects of copyright were put forward. This paper also deals with creation of American … copyright by a utilitarian, rather than a natural-law, impulse, the language of the Copyright Clause was borrowed directly from …