difficult to apply. It is, at the same time, vitally important in copyright and perhaps the most frequently raised and litigated … integral part of copyright's sorting mechanism for, on the one hand, granting authors intellectual property rights based on … exception for costly transactions, but rather as a central feature of the copyright system that ensures productive efficiency …

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 …

to shed light on the state of the art of copyright in the UK and to flesh out the idea of 'legal hysteresis'. I support …

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 …

(as some copyright holders claim) that this kind of easy copying may destroy the incentives to create and 'kill …' copyrights. The sharing trend indeed is vastly used to copy protected works. During the years the copyright law has been … negotiated among the representatives of copyright-owning and copyright-using industries while the public, which is expected and …

Corporate officer liability doctrines under both the Patent Act and the Copyright Act diverge markedly from traditional … corporate, agency, and tort law doctrines. This manuscript explores why the case law in federal patent and copyright cases … articulations of individual officer liability found in both patent and copyright law can be attributed to two factors: (1) the …

copyright infringement to defendant revenues …

This short article focuses on two means of copyright infringement deterrence and compensation available to copyright … owners in Canada that are specific to online infringement — namely, the Copyright Act's notice and notice regime, which … recently came into force, and injunctions to compel ISPs to disclose the identity of their subscribers to a copyright owner …

material. This paper explores the possible defense to the use of GIF files under EU Copyright Law by looking into the exception …