At the end of December the Italian Communications Authority (Agcom) unanimously approved a new regulation on copyright enforcement for on-line infringements. This Regulation, which does not imitate any previous European or US legislation, holds a specific procedure which can be used by copyright...

This paper exploits exogenous variation in the adoption of copyrights - as a result of the timing of Napoléon's military victories in Italy - to examine the effects of copyrights on creativity. To measure changes in creative output we compare changes in the creation of new operas across states...