Copyrights for books, news, and other types of media are a critical mechanism to encourage creativity and innovation. Yet economic analyses continue to be rare, partly due to a lack [...]
We show that World War I and the subsequent boycott against Central scientists severely interrupted international scientific cooperation. After 1914, citations to recent research from abroad decreased and paper titles [...]
A California man who built a sizable business out of recycling electronic waste is headed to federal prison for 15 months after a federal appeals court in Miami rejected his [...]
For those of us who have been blessed with an understanding of this regulation we call copyright, the lawyers representing the Mitchell estate were uttering something completely understandable.A sequel is [...]
And thus here lies the puzzle: by distributing the source code with the object code, open source and free software developers give their competitors free access to any value that [...]
Let's begin by understanding the changes that copyright law has undergone. There are five dimensions. First, duration: Disney builds its empire on top of the public domain because the culture [...]
The core motivating idea [for limiting copyright terms] was the restriction of monopoly. The English, of course, had learned to hate monopolies; they had essentially fought a war over Crown granted monopolies. As the United States [...]
So notice, then, how different our access to books is from our access to documentary films. After a limited time, almost all published books (but not all: put aside picture [...]
When individuals infringe copyright, they often use tools, services, and venues provided by other parties. An enduring legal question asks to what extent those other parties should be held liable [...]