Google’s Moon Shot
The vast majority of books [Google is publishing online] belong to a third category: still protected by copyright, or of uncertain status, and out of print. These books are at [...]
A Better Way Forward: Voluntary Collective Licensing of Music File Sharing
Since 2003, EFF has championed an alternative approach that gets artists paid while making file sharing legal: voluntary collective licensing. The concept is simple: the music industry forms several "collecting [...]
Save the Orphan (Works)
[M]ost copyrighted works have a short commercial life. Only a tiny fraction of books, songs, movies, and software are so successful that they enjoy multiple printings and continue to sell [...]
RIAA v. The People: Five Years Later
On September 8, 2003, the recording industry sued 261 American music fans for sharing songs on peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks, kicking off an unprecedented legal campaign against the people [...]
Scaling the Patent System
Why do firms in some industries ignore patents when developing new products? This paper posits a simple answer to this long puzzling question: firms ignore patents because they are unable [...]
The Chilling Effects of the DMCA
This wasn’t the first time the DMCA had interfered with my security research. Back in 2001, my colleagues and I had had to withdraw a peer-reviewed paper about CD copy [...]
The R&D Tax Credit in France: Assessment and Ex-Ante Evaluation of the 2008 Reform
This article presents an econometric analysis of the direct effects of the R&D tax credit (RTC) on private R&D investment and capital in France and proposes an ex ante evaluation [...]
Copyright and the Profitability of Authorship: Evidence from Payments to Writers in the Romantic Period
Proponents of stronger copyright terms have argued that stronger copyright terms encourage creativity by increasing the profitability of authorship. Empirical evidence, however, is scarce, because data on the profitability of [...]
Collateral Damages: Why Congress Needs To Fix Copyright Law’s Civil Penalties
In most areas of the law, we try to avoid this kind of unfairness [in payouts from civil litigation] and uncertainty by making sure that we tie penalties to the [...]
Specialty drug prices and utilization after loss of U.S. patent exclusivity, 2001-2007
We examine the impact of loss of U.S. patent exclusivity (LOE) on the prices and utilization of specialty drugs between 2001 and 2007. We limit our empirical cohort to drugs [...]