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Policymakers tend to adopt too narrow a view of the creative industries when determining the desirability of copyright … copyright is seriously weakened. However, the value of complements is difficult to forecast. As a result, lawmakers will often … set inappropriate copyright terms. In this note, I call for an approach to copyright legislation that makes it feasible to …
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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 …
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the copyright protection of intellectual property under vertical relations … investigate the effect of copyright protection by modeling the cases of perfect protection, partial protection and no protection …. We analyze whether copyright benefits social welfare. We explain the policy implications of our results for the …
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This paper reports results from a large recent study of the public domain in the European Union. Based on a combination of catalogue and survey data our figures for the number of items (and works) in the public domain extend across a variety of media and provide one of the first quantitative...
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copyright and public domain material and on the usage of that material. Combined with the estimates for the size of the EU …
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This paper evaluates the diffusion of electricity within the context of a GPT perspective. The paper develops a new comparative data set on the usage of electricity in the manufacturing sectors of the US, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypotheses of a...
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intellectual property protection, by reporting a few facts about copyright protection, and by examining reasons to become a digital …
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that cannot be properly covered by either of the two existing legal regimes, patent and copyright. Some innovations do not …
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Abraham J. Briloff's article entitled 'Google's SOS to the SEC' (Jan 29-Feb. 11, 2007, Accounting Today) examined Google's July 2006 appeal to rescue it from a tsunami that was flooding its banks with billions of billions of dollars. The ill wind inducing this dilemma for Google was the...
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and the expected penalties are considered the main determinants of the possible infringements of the copyright law … that an effective enforcement of the copyright rules should take into account the cultural behavior and students …
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