Twenty one years ago, copyright died. More accurately, it was killed. In 1996, in ProCD v. Zeidenberg, Judge … preempted by the Copyright Act and therefore enforceable. The reaction among copyright scholars was swift and passionate. In …, the results would be dire. Through contracts, the rights of copyright owners would run amok, expand, and in doing so they …

authorship and ownership – of privilege and property.This volume conceives a new history of copyright law that has its roots in a … digital archive Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) …

In this Article, we provide a blueprint for personalizing copyright law in order to reduce the deadweight loss that … data can help identify inframarginal users, who would not pay for copyrighted content, and we explain how copyright …

This paper provides a brief review of the law and economics of Copyright Law and Copyright Exceptions, Limitations, and … Immunities. Copyright law requires the creator's consent to copy, publish, convey, transfer or profit from their original work …. Copyright exceptions are legal limitations on the requirement that the prior consent, or authorization of the rights holder is …

The well-known “access-incentives” tradeoff that lies at the heart of the standard economic analysis of copyright … follows largely from the assumption that copyright turns authors into monopolists. If one instead analyzes copyright through a … increasing producer appropriability and profit, increased copyright protection can stimulate entry of competitors producing …

copyright, coupled with rapid technological advances and evolving consumer preferences, have seen an unprecedented proliferation … of regulatory arbitrage in the area of copyright law. This article offers a new scholarly account of the phenomenon … herein referred to as “copyright arbitrage.” Where economic arbitrage is often considered net-neutral, copyright arbitrage is …

The great expansion of EU copyright law has paved the way for several rightholders' abusive or dysfunctional conducts … decisions, and finds its way from civil codes to copyright in a number of national courts' precedents. Due to the paradigm shift … towards a market-oriented and industry-based inspiration, EU copyright seems now to be open to admitting the possibility of …

One manifestation of the trend towards the strengthening of copyright protection that has been noticeable during the … made in U.S. copyright laws during the second half of the twentieth century. Specifically, we present estimates of the past … these deferrals of access due to legislative extensions of the duration of copyright protection are found to reach …

.S. copyright piracy during a period when the U.S. was a developing country. U.S. statutes protected the copyrights of American … changed to allow foreigners to obtain copyright protection in the United States if certain conditions were met. Thus, this … episode in American history provides us with a convenient way of investigating the consequences of international copyright …