The Society for Economic Research on
Copyright Issues
Annual Congress
Bilbao (Spain)
July 7th and
8th 2011
Program
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Day
1: Thursday, July 7th |
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8.30 |
Welcome speeches |
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9.00 |
SERCI Invited Guest Lecture (session chair: Giovanni Ramello) “Efficient Agreements for Sharing Intellectual
Property”, Nancy Gallini (University of British Colombia). |
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10.20 |
Economics of Copyright (session chair: Dyuti Banerjee) 1. “Copyright and its Effects
on Different Types of Innovation”, Christian Handke (Erasmus University of Rotterdam). 2. “A Better Copyright
System? Comparing Indefinitely Renewable Copyright and the Current Copyright System in
International Setting”, Michael Yuan (Roger Williams University) and Koji Domon (Waseda University). |
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11.20 |
Coffee break |
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11.30 |
Online Sharing and Piracy (session chair: Christian Handke) 1. “The Literature´s Empirical File Sharing
Estimates are More Consistent Than Generally Understood”, Stan Liebowitz (University of
Texas at Dallas) 2. “The Economic Impact of Copyright Law: Evidence
of the Effect of Free Music Downloads on the Purchase of Music CDs in Canada”, George Barker (Australian
National University). 3. “Movie Piracy: The Losses in the Italian Sector”,
Anna Maria Bagnasco (Università IULM). |
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13.00 |
Lunch break |
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14.30 |
Copyright and Publishing 1 (session chair: Olivier Bomsel) 1. “Academic Copyright in
the Publishing Game: A Contest Perspective”, Marc Scheufen (University of Hamburg) and Eberhard Feess
(Frankfurt School of Finance and Management). 2. “Pricing Copyrighted
Goods on a Digital Support: The Case of Magazine Press”, Mattia de
Grassi (ParisTech) |
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15.30 |
Coffee Break |
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15.45 |
Issues on the Economics of Collective Administration
of Copyright (session
chair: Rubén Gutierrez) 1. “On Fair Copyright
Remuneration and Revenue Sharing for Music Radio Stations”, Richard
Watt (University of Canterbury). 2. “Efficiency and Technological Innovation in
Commercial Radio: Investment in the Context of Price Regulated Inputs”, Raphael Solomon (Copyright
Board of Canada). 3. “A Simple Model of Copyright Levies: Implications
for Harmonization”, Jin-Hyuk Kim (University of Cambridge). |
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17.15 |
SERCI Annual General Meeting |
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18.00 |
End of day 1 sessions |
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20.00 |
Gala Supper |
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Day 2: Friday, July 8th |
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9.00 |
Studies of Copyright in Particular Countries (Session chair: George Barker) 1. “Brazilian Works in the National Market”, Allan
Rocha (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro). 2. “Piracy in Spain: Myths and Realities”, Iris
Córdoba. |
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10.00 |
Law and Economics Approaches to Problems in
Copyright (Session
chair: Steve Margolis) 1. “Just Google it! The Google Book Search
Settlement: A Law and Economics Analysis”, Frank Muller-Langer (Max Planck Institute) and Marc Scheufen (University
of Hamburg). 2. “Copyright and New Media: A Law and Economics
Approach to Restricting Unknown Use Licenses”, Kate Darling (ETH Zurich). |
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11.00 |
Coffee break |
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11.30 |
Microeconomic Models of Copyright Piracy (session chair: Marcel Boyer) 1. “A Model of Piracy”, Jiangli Dou (Toulouse
School of Economics). 2. “Effect of piracy on innovation in the presence
of network externality”, Dyuti Banerjee (Monash University) 3. “Civil and Criminal Penalties for Copyright
Infringement”, Yashuhiro Arai (Hitotsubashi University) |
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13.00 |
Lunch break |
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14.30 |
Copyright and Creators (Session Chair: Richard Watt) 1. Title to be added, Peter Jenner 2. “More Rhetoric than Money: On Swedish Music
Copyrights 1980-2009”, Stafan Albinsson (University of Gothenburg) |
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15.30 |
Issues Relating to the Commons (session chair: Michael Yuan) 1. “The Socio-Economic Contribution of Creative
Commons”, Tal Niv (University of California at Berkeley). 2. “Tragedy of the Commons versus Tragedy of the
Anticommons? An Analysis in Terms of Social Choice and Property Rights”, Alain Herscovici (Federal
University of Espirito Santo). |
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16.30 |
Coffee break |
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16.45 |
Copyright and Publishing 2 (Session chair: Frank Muller-Langer) 1. “What Scientists
Can Learn from the Penguin: Open Access and Open Source”, Marc
Scheufen (University of Hamburg). 2. “Copyright and Legal Services”, Benjamin
Didier (ParisTech). |
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17.45 |
Closing comments and end of congress |
