Recent Trends in the Economics of Copyright

Edited by Ruth Towse, Professor of Economics of Creative Industries, CIPPM, Bournemouth University and CREATe Fellow in Cultural Economics, University of Glasgow, UK and Richard Watt, Associate Professor of Economics and Finance, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Contents:

Acknowledgements

General IntroductionRuth Towse and Richard Watt

PART IECONOMIC ASPECTS OF THE COPYRIGHT TERM

Introduction to Part I
Ruth Towse and Richard Watt

1. George A. Akerlof, Kenneth J. Arrow, Timothy F. Bresnahan, James M. Buchanan, Ronald H. Coase, Linda R. Cohen, Milton Friedman, Jerry R. Green, Robert W. Hahn, Thomas W. Hazlett, C. Scott Hemphill, Robert E. Litan, Roger G. Noll, Richard Schmalensee, Steven Shavell, Hal R. Varian, and Richard J. Zeckhauser (2002), ‘Brief as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners’
2. Stan J. Liebowitz and Stephen Margolis (2005), ‘Seventeen Famous Economists Weigh in on Copyright: The Role of Theory, Empirics and Network Effects’
3. William M. Landes and Richard A. Posner (2003), ‘Indefinitely Renewable Copyright’

PART IIECONOMICS OF COPYING AND COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT

Introduction to Part II
Ruth Towse and Richard Watt

4. Justin P. Johnson and Michael Waldman (2005), ‘The Limits of Indirect Appropriability in Markets for Copiable Goods’
5. Martin Peitz and Patrick Waelbroeck (2006), ‘Piracy of Digital Products: A Critical Review of the Theoretical Literature’
6. Ivan P.L. Png (2006), ‘Copyright: A Plea for Empirical Research’
7. Michele Boldrin and David Levine (2002), ‘The Case Against Intellectual Property’

PART IIIISSUES IN COPYRIGHT ADMINISTRATION

Introduction to Part III
Ruth Towse and Richard Watt

8. William J. Baumol (2004), ‘The Socially Desirable Size of Copyright Fees’
9. Arthur Snow and Richard Watt (2005), ‘Risk Sharing and the Distribution of Copyright Collective Income’
10. Fabrice Rochelandet (2003), ‘Are Copyright Collecting Societies Efficient Organisations? An Evaluation of Collective Administration of Copyright in Europe’

PART IVCOPYRIGHT AND INCENTIVES TO ARTISTS

Introduction to Part IV
Ruth Towse and Richard Watt

11. Amit Gayer and Oz Shy (2006), ‘Publishers, Artists and Copyright Enforcement’
12. Ruth Towse (2006) ‘Copyright and Artists: A View From Cultural Economics’

PART VCOPYRIGHT AND OPEN SOURCE

Introduction to Part V
Ruth Towse and Richard Watt

13. Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole (2005), ‘The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open Source and Beyond’
14. Justin Pappas Johnson (2002), ‘Open Source Software: Private Provision of a Public Good’

Name Index