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Title: Prices in Cultural
Markets: A theoretical introduction for beginners
Author: Richard Watt
Date: November 2001
Description: A speech given to the Spanish Author's Society
seminar on copyright management held in Madrid on 12/11/2001.
Title: Back to the Future:
Can Copyright Stand up to Technology's Onslaught?
Author: Stan Liebowitz
Date: June 2002
Title: Copyright and the
Symbolic Nature of Art
Author: T. Cowen
Date: June 2002
Title: Preach for a Breach:
Selective Enforcement of Copyrights as and
Optimal Monopolistic Behavior
Author: D. Ben-Shahar and A. Jacob
Date: June 2002
Title: International
Diffusion and Intellectual Property Rights: An Empirical Analyisis
Author:P. McCalman
Date: June 2002
Title: European Software
Piracy: An Empirical Application
Author: A. Rodriquez
Date: June 2002
Title: Music Distribution
in the Internet
Author: A.Rebollo
Date: June 2002
Title: Mobilizing Digital Sounds: Appropriation and Dispute of
Music Recordings
Author: R. Cowan and E. Harison
Date: June 2002
Title: Innovation of Music
Author: T. Regner
Date: June 2002
Title: Pricing Information Products in the Presence of Copying
Author: P. Belleflamme
Date: June 2002
Title: Piracy, Asymmetric Information, and Product Quality
Revelation
Author: L. Takeyama
Date: June 2002
Title: Piracy and Quality
Choice in Monopolistic Markets
Author:M. Alvisi, E. Argentesi and E. Carbonara
Date: June 2002
Title: Read-only Versions
for Free and for Profit: Functional Quality Differentiation Strategies of
a Software Producing Monopoly
Author: G. Csorba
Date: June 2002
Title: Copyright and
Cultural Policy for the Creative Industries
Author: R. Towse
Date: June 2002
Title: The Distribution of Copyright Income: A Nash Bargaining
Model
Author: J. Alonso and R. Watt
Date: June 2002
Title: Are Copyright Collecting Societies Efficient Organizations?
Author: F. Rochelandet
Date: June 2002
Title: Excuse and Justification in the Law of Fair Use:
Commodification and Market Perspectives
Author: W. Gordon
Date: June 2002
Title: The Market for Copyrights: The Price Theory of Copyright
Collectives
Author: B. Depoorter and F. Parisi
Date: June 2002
Title: Self-help Systems: Good Substitutes for Copyright or New
Barriers to Competition?
Author:J. Farchy and
F. Rochelandet
Date: June 2002
Title: Copyright and Antitrust
Author: G. Ramello
Date: June 2002
Title: Intellectual Property
Author: Wendy Gordon
Date: June 2003
Title: Sharing Copyrighted Works
Author: Michael Meurer
Date: June 2003
Title: Risk Sharing and the Distribution of Copyright Collective
Income
Author: Art Snow and Richard Watt
Date: June 2003
Title: Music Collecting Societies and Webcasting
Author: Ville Oksanen and Mikko Valimaki
Date: June 2003
Title: Rights of First Entry in 'Derivative Markets': Exploring
Market Definition in Copyright
Author: Shubha Ghosh
Date: June 2003
Title: IMS Health or the Question Whether Intellectual Property
Still Deserves a Specific Approach in a Free Market
Author: Paul Torremans and Alessandra Narciso
Date: June 2003
Title: An Economic Approach to what the Conditions of Abuse of a
Dominant Position of Copyright Should Be
Author: Estelle Derclaye
Date: June 2003
Title: Does Peer-to-Peer Harm Copyright Owners? Protecting and
Distributing Digital Products
Author: Anne Duchene and Patrick Waelbroeck
Date: June 2003
Title: Managing Digital Piracy: Pricing, Protection and Usage Externalitites
Author: Arun Sundararajan
Date: June 2003
Title: Fair Use as a Policy Instrument
Author: Tim Brennan
Date: June 2003
Title: An Economic Reform of Fair Use
Author: Michael Einhorn
Date: June 2003
Title: The Production of Music in the Face of Peer-to-Peer
Downloading: Is There a Better Alternative to the Market?
Author: Stan Liebowitz
Date: June 2003
Title: The Economic Evaluation of Alternatives to Digital
Copyright
Author: Peter Eckersley
Date: June 2003
Title: Questioning the Economic Justification for (and Thus
Constitutionality of) Copyright Law's Prohibition Against Unauthorized
Copying: Sec. 106
Author: Mark Nadel
Date: June 2003
Title: Copyright and Product Differentiation
Author: Christopher Yoo
Date: June 2003
Title: Gödel's Theorem and the Case of the Internet Information
Commons
Author: John Cahir
Date: June 2003
Title: Digital Rights Management Standards Inc.: Rethinking
Cyberspace Regulative Epistemology
Author: Daniel Benoliel
Date: June 2003
Title: File Sharing and Business Models
Author: Michael Einhorn
Date: June 2003
Title: Competition Over Piratable Goods
Author: Paul Belleflamme and Pierre
Picard
Date: June 2003
Title: Copying and Demand for Originals
Author: Edi Grgeta
Date: June 2003
Title: Behavioralism and Copyright: Some
Emerging Questions
Author: Timothy Cullen
Date: June 2003
Title: Contracts and Digital Content
Author: Tobias Regner
Date: June 2003
Title: Sunk Cost and Free-Riding Justification - A Risk Analysis
Approach
Author: Net Le
Date: June 2003
Title: Fair Division of the Profit from Collaboration in Markets
for Intellectual Property
Author: Michael Meurer
Date: June 2003
Title: Copyright and Human Rights: A New International Model
Author: Mira Sundara Rajan
Date: June 2003
Title: The Author as Decision Maker: An Economic and Legal
Analysis of How Copyright is Allocated and Why
Author: Kim Weatherall
Date: June 2003
Title: An Overview of Copyright and Intellectual Property
Author: Marta Ceballos
Date: June 2003
Title: 17 Famous Economists Weigh in on Copyright: The Role of
Theory, Empirics, and Network
Effects
Author: Stan Liebowitz and Steve
Margolis
Date: June 2004
Title: The Current Copyright Debate
Author:Nathan Musick
Date: June 2004
Title:Court Decisions and
Equity Markets: Estimating the Value of Copyright Protection
Author: Matthew Baker and Brendan Cunningham
Date: June 2004
Title: Solving Piracy Problems: Beyond the Technical and Legal Responce, the Alternative Economical Solutions
Author: Joelle Farchy
Date: June 2004
Title: What Light is Shone by (Certain) Economic Theory on Digital
Rights Management?
Author: Alan Cunningham
Date: June 2004
Title:From Arms Race to
Mutual Cooperation - Different Incentive Structures for Digital Content
Creation
Author: Ville Oksanen and Mikko Valimaki
Date: June 2004
Title: Switching Costs and the Microsoft Case in Europe
Author: Net Le
Date: June 2004
Title: The Effect of Internet Piracy on CD Sales: Cross-Section
Evidence
Author: Martin Peitz and Patrick Waelbroeck
Date: June 2004
Title: Copyright in Arab Countries
Author: Najib Harabi
Date: June 200
Title: The Economic Contribution of Copyright to the Canadian
Economy
Author: Rizak Abdullahi
Date: June 2004
Title: Entry Deterrence and Multidimensional Competition in the
Satellite Pay-TV Market
Author: Nicola Matteucci
Date: June 2004
Title: Intellectual Property Rights and Creativity-Based Goods
Heritages
Author: Christian Barrère and Véronique Chossat
Date: June 2004
Title: Private Provision of a Complementary Public Good
Author: Richard Schmidtke
Date: June 200
Title: Software Piracy and Social Welfare: An Analysis of
Protection Mechanisms and Pricing Strategies
Author: Gokhan Ozertan
and Baris Cevik
Date: June 2004
Title: Reverse Anti-Commons: The Dynamics of Property Rights in
Free/Open Source Communities
Author: Suresh Naidu and Alessandra Rossi
Date: June 2004
Title:Distributive Justice Goals in
the Law and Economics of Copyright
Author: Shubha Ghosh
Date: June 2004
Title: Copyright Failure and the Protection for Tables and
Compilations
Author: Dennis Khong
Date: June 2004
Title: The Potential Demise of Another Natural Monopoly: The
Present and the Future of Collective Administration of Copyrights
Author: Ariel Katz
Date: June 2004
Title: Peer-to-peer Networks. Creative Distruction
or Just Plain Distruction?
Author: Stan Liebowitz
Date: June 2004
Title: Analysis of the authors' rights collection frontier using
PCA-MDEA: an application to the Valencia region
Author: Francisco Marco-Serrano,Pau Rausell-Köster,
and Salvador Carrasco-Arroyo
Date: 2005
Title: Intellectual Property - How Dissemination is Promoted by
the Right to Keep it to Yourself
Author: William Baumol
Date: 2005
Title:The Impact of
Digital File Sharing on the Music Industry
Author: Norbert Michel
Date: 2005
Title: The Unauthorised Sharing Through
P2P Networks: An Empirical Investigation With French Survey Data
Author: Fabrice Rochelandet
and Fabrice Le Guel
Date: 2005
Title: Economic Contribution of Copyright Based Industries in
Singapore
Author: Chow Kit Boey and Leo Kah Mun
Date: 2005
Title: Economic Importance of Copyright Protected Activitites in Brazil
Author: S. Carvalho, A. Buainain, S. Yamamura and G. Kopke
Date: 2005
Title: The Effect of Litigation on Creativity and Welfare
Author:Julio Robledo
Date: 2005
Title: Comparing The Current Copyright System With Indefinately Renewable Copyright: The Effect of
Information Intermediaries
Author: Michael Yuan and Zhixiong Chen
Date: 2005
Title: An Economic Analysis of the Contractual Protection of
Databases
Author: Estelle Derclaye
Date: 2005
Title: Intellectual Property, Antitrust, and the Presumption of
Market Power
Author: Ariel Katz
Date: 2005
Title: Music Piracy in Spain
Author: Brett Keintz
Date: 2005
Title: Pirates or Explorers? Analysis of Music Consumption in
French Graduate Schools
Author: David Bounie, Marc Bourreau and Patrick Waelbroeck
Date: 2005
Title: Free Software, Copyleft and
Trends in Intellectual Property
Author: Antonio Buanian and Cassia
Mendes
Date: 2005
Title: OSS Production and Licencing
Strategies of Software Firms
Author: Heli Koski
Date: 2005
Title: Optimal Enforcement and Anti-copying Strategies to Counter
Copyright Infringement
Author: Dyuti Banerjee, Tanmoyee Chatterjee and Ajitava Raychaudhuri
Date: 2005
Title: DRM and Competition: The Consequences on Cultural Diversity
for the Case of the Online Music Market
Author:Joelle Farchy and Heritiana Ranaivoson
Date: 2005
Title: The Aims of European Competition Policy Towards Copyright
Collecting Societies
Author: Martin Kretschmer
Date: 2005
Title: Access Versus Exclusion to Knowledge: Balancing the Effects
of Copyright on Social Creative Networks
Author: Giovanni Ramello and Francesco
Silva
Date: 2005
Title: Availability of Feature Films in the Internet
Author: Paul Stepan
Date: 2005
Title: Micropayments for Intellectual Properties: Price
Discrimination or Unbundling, or Both?
Author: Stan Liebowitz
Date: 2005
Title: Alternative Compensation Methods and ICT Development
Author: Ville Oksanen and Mikko Valimaki
Date: 2005
Title: The Value of Copyrights in Recorded Musical Works: The
Canadian Viewpoint
Author: Marcel Boyer
Date: 2005
Title:A Model of Author Time Allocation
Author: Ruth Towse and Richard Watt
Date: 2005
Title: Copyright Under Siege: An Economic Analysis of the
Essential Facilities Doctrine and the Compulsory Licensing of Copyrighted
Works
Author: Darryl Lim
Date: 2006
Title: The Effect of Price Discrimination on Optimal Copyright
Duration
Author: Michael Yuan
Date: 2006
Title: A Strategic Analysis of Fair Use and Piracy in Copyright
Author:Shavran Luckraz
Date: 2006
Title: The Profits of Infringement: Richard Posner v. Learned Hand
Author: Steve Margolis
Date: 2006
Title: Economics of Digital Piracy
Author: Sougata Poddar
Date: 2006
Title: Movie Piracy: Analysis of Piracy Behaviour
in French Universities
Author: Patrick Waelbroeck; Marc Bourreau and David Bounie
Date: 2006
Title: The Economic Contribution of Copyright in Canada
Author:Rizak Abdullahi
Date: 2006
Title: The Stock Market Response to Copyright Term Extension
Author: Roy Khong and Dennis Khong
Date: 2006
Title: Free Software, Copyleft and
Trends in Intellectual Property
Author: Antonio Buanian and Cassia
Mendes
Date: 2006
Title: Law and Innovation in Copyright Industries
Author:Mathew Baker and
Brendan Cunningham
Date: 2006
Title:Copyright Duration and the
Supply of Creative Work
Author: Ivan Png and Qiu-Hong
Wang
Date: 2006
Title: Unauthorized File-Sharing and Pirated CDs without Effective
Copyright Enforcement: A Vietnam Case Study
Author:Koji Domon
Date: 2006
Title:Buyers or Pirates? The
Microeconomics of Reproducing, Consuming, and Smuggling Information Goods
Author: Stefania Lionetti
Date: 2006
Title:Technological Transformations,
IPRs and Second Best Theory
Author: Richard G. Lipsey
Date: 2007
Title:Optimal Copyright Length
and Ex-post Investment: A Mickey Mouse Approach
Author: Nodir
Adilov, Michael Waldman
Date: 2007
Title:Forever Minus a Day?
Some Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright
Author: Rufus Pollock
Date: 2007
Title: Music Variety and Retail Concentration
Author: Marie-Laure Allain, Patrick Waelbroeck
Date: 2007
Title: The Value of Music to Commercial Radio Stations
Author: Marcel Boyer
Date: 2007
Title: Economic Functions of Collective Management Organizations –
Collective rights management in the light of transaction cost and
information economics
Author: Gerd Hansen, Albrecht Schmidt-Bischoffshausen,
Date: 2007
Title:Regulating Copyright
Collecting Societies
Author:Ruth Towse, Christian
Handke
Date: 2007
Title: Efficient Allocation of Risk as an Economic Function of
Collecting Societies
Author:Ana María Pérez Gómez Tétrel
Date: 2007
Title: Substitution and Schumpeterian Effects in the Life Cycle of
Copyrighted Works
Author: Ariel Katz
Date: 2007
Title: Incentives, Efficiency and Social Justice: the Strange Case
of Intellectual Property and Knowledge
Author: Giovanni B. Ramello
Date: 2007
Title: Works of Authorship at Work: Copyright Allocation in the
Workplace
Author:Michael Birnhack
Date: 2007
Title: The Economics of Movie Piracy, Theatre Movies and DVD
Author: Sougata Poddar
Date: 2007
Title: Copyright Piracy as Prey-Predator Behaviour
Author: Francisco J. Vázquez,Richard
Watt
Date: 2007
Title: Copyright protection and innovation in the presence of
commercial piracy
Author:Dyuti S. Banerjee
Date: 2007
Title:Are Free Licences Suited for Cultural Works?
Author:Joëlle Farchy
Date: 2007
Title: The Economics of Criminal Enforcement of Copyright
Author:Robert G. Picard,
Tobias Dahlström and Edward Humphreys,
Date: 2007
Title:Copyright and Other
Incentives to Create
Author: Paul Stepan
Date: 2007
Title: Visual Artists’ Resale Royalty: A Mechanism Design Approach
Author: Maryam Dilmaghani
Date: 2008
Title:“Creative Menus: Applying
Some Considerations of Default Rules and Contractual Menus to the Case of
Creative Commons Licenses.
Author: Federico Morando
Date: 2008
Title:On the Reliability
of Software Piracy Statistics.”
Author: Ivan Png
Date: 2008
Title: Who Should Bell Piracy? An Experimental Analysis.”
Author: Dyuti Banerjee,Lata
Gangadharan and Puskar
Maitra
Date: 2008
Title: The Economics of Copyright and Fair Dealing.”
Author: Marcel Boyer
Date: 2008
Title: Is the Copyright Monopoly a Best-Selling Fiction?”
Author:Stan Liebowitz
Date: 2008
Title:Does One Size
Copyright Fit All? On The Disinterest of Small Record Companies in
Copyright Protection.”
Author:Christian Handke
Date: 2008
Title: Should Small and Large Information Economies Have the Same
Duration of Copyright?”
Author: Michael Yuan
Date: 2008
Title: Copyright Law, Movie Production and Video Pricing: The
European Rental Directive.”
Author: Qui-Hong Wang,Ivan Png
Date: 2008
Title: Creative Development: Helping Poor Countries by Building Copyright
Industries.”
Author: Mark Schultz,Alec Van Gelder
Date: 2008
Title: Digital Piracy in Europe:Some
first micro-evidence based on a German survey
Author: Philipp Mandel, and Bernd Süssmuth
Date: 2009
Title: Decreasing copyright enforcement costs: the scope of a
graduated response
Author: Olivier Bomsel, and Heritiana Ranaivoson
Date: 2009
Title: How Big is the Public Domain?
Author: Paul Stepan, Rufus Pollock, and Mikko Valimaki
Date: 2009
Title: Don't Play It Again Sam. Radio Play, Record Sales and
Property Rights
Author: Stan Liebowitz
Date: 2009
Title: The Incentives for Cooperation in International Copyright:
Comparing Comparative and Competitive Models
Author: Michael Yuan
Date: 2009
Title: Profitable Piracy and Media Development in the Music
Industry
Author: Koji Domon
Date: 2009
Title: Illusions Perdues: The
Idea/Expression Dichotomy at Crossroads
Author: Eleonora Rosati
Date: 2009
Title: The Rise of User Creativity - Web 2.0 and a New Challenge
for Copyright Law and Cultural Policy
Author: Nobuku Kawashima
Date: 2009
Title:Piracy, Entry
Deterrence and IPR Protection
Author: Sougata Poddar,
and Yuanzhu Lu .
Date: 2009
Title:Piracy, Converting
Pirates Without Cannibalizing
Purchasers: The Impact of Digital Distribution on Physical
Sales and Internet Piracy
Author: Brett Danaher, Samita Dhanasobhon, Michael Smith, and Rahul Telang
Date: 2009
Title:Copyright Law and the
Supply of Creative Work: Evidence From the Movies
Author: Ivan Png,and Qiu-Hong
Wang
Date: 2009
Title:The entertainment industry, peer-to-peer and
alternative remuneration schemes
Author: Allan Rocha de Souza
Date: 2010
Title:Copyright and brands in the digital age: Internalizing
the externalities of meaning
Author: Olivier Bomsel
Date: 2010
Title: Tax treatment of Cross border
transactions regarding intangible assets. Tax Policy Reflections for
Latin America
Author: Catalina Hoyos
Date: 2010
Title: The impact of international
direct taxation on the economic exploitation of copyrights
Author: Esperanza Buitrago
Date: 2010
Title: The economic impact of taxation
on the flow of software copyright royalties within the Common Market of
the South
Author: Carlos Forcada
Date: 2010
Title: Copyright and open access for
academic works
Author: Frank Müller-Langer and Richard
Watt
Date: 2010
Title: Digital copying and the supply
of sound recordings
Author: Christian Handke
Date: 2010
Title: International Convergence of
Copyright Production
Author: Jin-Hyuk
Kim
Date: 2010
Title:The Four P’s of Digital Distribution in the
Internet Era: Piracy, Pricing, Pie-Splitting, and Pipe Dreams
Author:Joel Waldfogel and
Carlson School
Date: 2010
Title:The Welfare and Incentive of Stackelberg
Competition in International Copyright
Author: Michael Y. Yuan and Koji Domon
Date: 2010
Title: Copyright and its Effects on Different
Types of Innovation”,
Author: Christian Handke
Date: 2011
Title: A Better Copyright System? Comparing Indefinitely Renewable
Copyright and the Current Copyright System in International Setting
Author: Michael Yuan and Koji Domon
Date: 2011
Title: Academic Copyright in the Publishing
Game: A Contest Perspective
Author: Marc Scheufen and Eberhard Feess
Date: 2011
Title: Pricing Copyright Goods on a Digital
Support: The Case of Magazine Press
Author: Mattia de Grassi
Date: 2011
Title: On Fair Copyright Remuneration and
Revenue Sharing for Music Radio Stations
Author: Richard Watt
Date: 2011
Title: What Scientists Can Learn from the
Penguin: Open Access and Open Source
Author: Marc Scheufen
Date: 2011
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