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2023

The Economics of Collective Management in the Music Copyright Industry in The Netherlands: Digital Transformation and Equitable Remuneration

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 2023, vol. 20, pp. 38-75

Nerko Hadžiarapović, Johan Versendaal, Marlies Van Steenbergen and Pascal Ravesteijn

Copyright's Functions in Complex, Digital Markets

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 2023, vol. 20, pp. 11-37

Christian Handke

Some Remarks on Bargaining Power, Innovation, and 21st Century Copyright Law

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 2023, vol. 20, pp. 1-10

Abhinay Muthoo

2022

Music Licensing for Non-Interactive and Other Radio-Style Services: A Competitive Approach

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 2022, vol. 19, pp. 76-113

Jacob B. Ebin and David Reitman

A Novel Dataset Measuring Change in Copyright Exceptions

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 2022, vol. 19, pp. 52-75

Michael Palmedo

A Practical Model of Copyright Economics with Intermediaries

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 2022, vol. 19, pp. 1-51

Peter DiCola

2021

Victor Hugo Betrayed: The Domain Public Payant as Intended in the 19th Century and as Implemented Today

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 2021, 18, 56-80

Maximiliano Marzetti

Aria Rentals: The ’Grand’ Performance Right at Work in the Royal Swedish Opera During the Twentieth Century

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 2021, 18, 26-55

Staffan Albinsson

Music Licensing For Non-Interactive and Other Radio-Style Services: Is It Finally Time To Move Away From Blanket Licensing?

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 2021, 18, 1-25

Jacob B. Ebin and David Reitman

2020

Collective Management of Music Copyright in China: Insights for the Regulation of the Monopolistic and Monopsonistic Power of the Music Copyright Society of China from a Comparative Legal Approach

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, vol. 17(2); 23-52

Qinqing Xu

Figuring It Out: Applying economics to copyright royalty rates for streamed music

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 2020, vol. 17(2), pp. 1-22

Ruth Towse

Compulsory licensing for radio-play of music in India: Recent history and economic context

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 2020, vol. 17(1), pp. 60-77

Megha Patnaik

Competitive Strategy of Proprietary Software Firms in an Open Source Environment

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 2020, vol. 17(1), pp. 38-59

Edmond Baranes, Cuong Hung Vuong and Mourad Zeroukhi

Accounting for Creativity: Lessons from the Economic History of Intellectual Property and Innovation

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 2020, vol. 17(1), pp. 1-37

B. Zorina Khan

2019

Music-Use Tariffs, Options, Regulation and Bargaining

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 2019, vol. 16(1/2), pp. 40-67

Frank Mathewson, E. Jane Murdoch and Gerry Wall

The U.S. Copyright Termination Law, Asymmetric Information, and Legal Uncertainty

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 2019, vol. 16(1/2), pp. 1-39

Michael Karas

2018

Indirect Copyright Infringement Liability for an ISP: An Application of the Theory of the Economics of Contracts under Asymmetric Information

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 2018, 15(2), 57-79

Richard Watt and Frank Mueller-Langer

Truce in the Copyright War? The Pros and Cons of Copyright Compensation Systems for Digital Use

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 2018, 15(2), 23-56

Christian W. Handke, João Quintais and Balázs Bodó

Getting Pricing Right on Digital Music Copyright

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 2018, 15(2), 1-22

Joshua S. Gans

Intellectual Property Regulation and Software Piracy: A Dynamic Approach

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 2018, 15(1), 38-64

Michael D'Rosario

Language, Copyright and Geographic Segmentation in the EU Digital, Single Market for Music and Film

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 2018, 15(1), 20-37

Estrella Gomez Herrera and Bertin Martens

The Relative Effectiveness of Global Anti-Piracy Policies

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 2018, 15(1), 1-19

Tylor Orme

2017

Exploring a Better Design of Copyright Law

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 14(2), 55-80, 2017

Shinya Kinukawa

Remarks to the SERCI Panel on Regulatory Copyright Tariff Setting

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 14(1/2), 45-54, 2017

Gerry Wall

The Spanish Copyright Commission (Section I) Within the European Legal Framework

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 14(1/2), 39-44, 2017

Raul Rodriguez

Capabilities, Spillovers, and Intellectual Progress: Toward a Human Flourishing Theory of Intellectual Property

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 14(1/2), 1-38, 2017

Brett M. Frischmann

Introduction to RERCI Vol 14(1/2)

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 14(1/2), 0, 2017

Richard Watt

2016

Copyright Auctions and the Asset Value of a Copyright Work

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 13(2), 83-99, 2016

Ruth Towse

The Use of Vertical Market Prices in Setting Copyright Tariffs and Rates

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 13(2), 66-82, 2016

Gerry Wall and Bernie Lefebvre

Digital Rights Management and Hardware Market Power

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 13(2), 25-65, 2016

Jin-Hyuk Kim and Michael Waldman

The Economics of Digital Goods: A Progress Report

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 13(2), 1-24, 2016

Paul Belleflamme

Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words? The Division of Private Copy Remuneration between Authors of Text and Images

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 13(1), 29-60, 2016

Juan Santaló

Museums, Property Rights, and Photographs of Works of Art. Why Reproduction Through Photograph Should Be Free.

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 13(1), 1-28, 2016

Alain Marciano and Nathalie Moureau

2015

The Efficiencies of Aggregation: An Economic Theory Perspective on Collective Management of Copyright

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 12(1/2), 26-45, 2015

Richard Watt

Value Based Pricing of Music

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 12(1/2), 16-25, 2015

T. Randolph Beard, George S. Ford and Michael L. Stern

Royalty Rate Setting for Sound Recordings by the United States Copyright Royalty Board: The Judicial Need for Independent Scholarly Economic Analysis

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 12(1/2), 1-15, 2015

David R. Strickler

2014

Europe's Lost Royalty Opportunity: A Comparison of Potential and Existing Digital Music Royalty Markets in Ten Different EU States

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 11(2), 60-91, 2014

Roya Ghafele

The Winds of Change. Journey of UK Music from the Old World to The New World

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 11(2), 27-59, 2014

Maurice C. Samuel

Copyright Licensing Under Asymmetric Information

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 11(2), 1-26, 2014

Inés Macho-Stadler and David Pérez-Castrillo

The Effects of the Berne Convention on Translations in the Netherlands

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 11(1), 9-31, 2014

Leo Fankhanel

Cartel Sustainability and Piracy in a Vertically Differentiated Oligopoly

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 11(1), 9-31, 2014

Iacopo Grassi

2013

The Economic Effects of Digitization on the Administration of Musical Copyrights

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 10(2), 55-67, 2013

Ruth Towse

Copyright Enforcement and Quality Differentiation on the Internet

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 10(2), 27-54, 2013

Marine Lefort

Piracy of Intellectual Property: Past, Present, and Future

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 10(2), 1-26, 2013

Ian Novos and Michael Waldman

Sound Earnings? The Income Structure of Swedish Composers 1990-2009

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 10(1), 36-73, 2013

Staffan Albinsson

The Economics of Copyright Levies on Hardware

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 10(1), 20-35, 2013

Patrick Legros and Victor A. Ginsburgh

Dissemination Must Serve Authors: How the U.S. Supreme Court Erred

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 10(1), 1-19, 2013

Wendy J. Gordon

2012

More Music in Movies: What Box Office Data Reveals About the Availability of Public Domain Songs in Movies from 1968-2008

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 31-54, 2012, Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 11-23

Paul J. Heald , Peibei Shi, Jeffrey Stoiber and Qingyao Zheng

Economics of Copyright Collecting Societies and Digital Rights: Is There a Case for a Centralised Digital Copyright Exchange?

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 9, No. 2, 3-30, 2012

Ruth Towse

The Efficiency of Droit De Suite: An Experimental Assessment

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 9, No. 1, 93-121, 2012

Maryam Dilmaghani and Jim Engle-Warnick

A Taxonomy of Empirical Research on Copyright - How Do We Inform Policy?

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 9, No. 1, 47-92, 2012

Christian Handke

The Economics Fair Use/Dealing: Copyright Protection in a Fair and Efficient Way

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 9, No. 1, 3-46, 2012

Marcel Boyer

Evidence of the Effect of Free Music Downloads on the Purchase of Music CDs in Canada

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 9(2), 55-78, 2012

George Barker

2011

Copyright, Evidence and Lobbynomics: The World after the UK's Hargreaves Review

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 8, No. 2, 65-100, 2011

Benjamin Mitra-Kahn

Copyright in the Digital Age; Benefiting Users and Creators?

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 8, No. 2, 55-64, 2011

Peter Jenner

Indefinitely Renewable Copyright and the Current Copyright System: A Two Country Setting Comparison

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 8, No. 2, 35-54, 2011

Michael Y. Yuan and Koji Domon

Competition Policy, Patent Pools and Copyright Collectives

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 8, No. 2, 3-34, 2011

Nancy Gallini

What We Know, What We Don't Know, and What Policy-makers Would Like Us to Know About the Economics of Copyright

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 8, No. 2, 101-120, 2011

Ruth Towse

The Google Book Search Settlement: A Law and Economics Analysis

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 8, No. 1, 7-50, 2011

Frank Mueller-Langer and Marc Scheufen

Revenue Sharing as Compensation for Copyright Holders

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 8, No. 1, 51-97, 2011

Richard Watt

2010

Digital Technology, Price Discrimination, and Copyright Duration Extension

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 7, No. 2, 39-55, 2010

Michael Y. Yuan

The Four P's of Digital Distribution in the Internet Era: Piracy, Pie-Splitting, and Pipe Control

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 7, No. 2, 3-20, 2010

Joel Waldfogel

Fair Copyright Remuneration: The Case of Music Radio

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 7, No. 2, 21-37, 2010

Richard Watt

Copyright & Endogenous Market Structure: A Glimpse from the Journal Publishing Market

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 7, No. 1, 7-29, 2010

Giovanni Battista Ramello

Radio Airplay, Digital Music Sales and the Fallacy of Composition in New Zealand

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 7, No. 1, 67-81, 2010

Mehnaz Bandookwala

Copyright and Open Access for Academic Works

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 7, No. 1, 45-65, 2010

Frank Mueller-Langer and Richard Watt

A Response to Prof. Shavell's 'Should Copyright of Academic Works Be Abolished?'

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 7, No. 1, 31-44, 2010

Hossein Nabilou

Introduction: Copyright and the Publishing of Scientific Works

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1-6, 2010

Richard Watt

2009

Creativity and the Economics of the Copyright Controversy

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 6, No. 2, 5-12, 2009

Harold Demsetz

Bestselling Musical Compositions (1913-32) and Their Use in Cinema (1968-2007)

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 6, No. 2, 31-60, 2009

Paul J. Heald

Decreasing Copyright Enforcement Costs: The Scope of a Graduated Response

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 6, No. 2, 13-29, 2009

Olivier Bomsel and Heritiana Ranaivoson

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Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1-4, 2009

Richard Watt

Law and Innovation in Copyright Industries

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 6, No. 1, 61-82, 2009

Matthew J. Baker and Brendan Michael Cunningham

Forever Minus a Day? Calculating Optimal Copyright Term

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 6, No. 1, 35-60, 2009

Rufus Pollock

Should Different Information Economies Have the Same Duration of Copyright?

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 6, No. 1, 13-33, 2009

Michael Y. Yuan

Profitable Piracy in Music Industries

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1-11, 2009

Koji Domon and Tran D. Lam

2008

Open Standards and Interoperability in EU Digital TV: Economics and Policy Issues

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 5, No. 2, 45-70, 2008

Nicola Matteucci

Visual Artists' Resale Royalty: An Application of the Principal and Agent Model

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 5, No. 2, 37-43, 2008

Maryam Dilmaghani

The Emergence of Musical Copyright in Europe from 1709 to 1850

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 5, No. 2, 3-18, 2008

Frederic M. Scherer

The Incentives for Contributing Digital Contents Over P2P Networks: An Empirical Investigation

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 5, No. 2, 19-35, 2008

Fabrice Rochelandet and Tushar K Nandi

Considering the Risk Dimension in the Administration of Copyright

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 5, No. 1, 75-87, 2008

Ana Maria Tetrel

Exclusion, Competition and Change: The Shifting Boundaries of the Television Market

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 5, No. 1, 55-74, 2008

Giovanni Battista Ramello and Francesco Silva

Restricting Access to Books on the Internet: Some Unanticipated Effects of US Copyright Legislation

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 5, No. 1, 23-53, 2008

Paul A. David and Jared Rubin

The Economics of Copyright Law: A Stocktake of the Literature

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1-22, 2008

Ruth Towse, Christian Handke and Paul Stepan

2007

Copyright from an Institutional Perspective: Actors, Interests, Stakes and the Logic of Participation

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 4, No. 2, 65-97, 2007

Antonina Bakardjieva Engelbrekt

Optimal Copyright Over Time: Technological Change and the Stock of Works

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 4, No. 2, 51-64, 2007

Rufus Pollock

Technological Transformation, Intellectual Property Rights and Second Best Theory

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 4, No. 2, 5-28, 2007

Richard G. Lipsey

The 'Competitive' Value of Music to Commercial Radio Stations

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 4, No. 2, 29-50, 2007

Paul Audley and Marcel Boyer

Guest Editor's Introduction

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1-3, 2007

Christian W. Handke

Unauthorized Copying and Copyright Enforcement in Developing Countries: A Vietnam Case Study

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 4, No. 1, 87-96, 2007

Koji Domon and Kiyoshi Nakamura

Causes, Effects and Solutions of Piracy in the Computer Software Market

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 4, No. 1, 63-86, 2007

Amy Marshall

Private-Collective Software Business Models: Coordination and Commercialization Via Licensing

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 4, No. 1, 47-61, 2007

Heli A. Koski

Patent and/or Copyright for Software: What Has Been Done So Far?

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 4, No. 1, 3-14, 2007

Richard Watt

Copyright Versus Patents: The Open Source Software Legal Battle

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 4, No. 1, 21-46, 2007

Francois Leveque and Yann Ménière

Intellectual Property in Software Development: Trends, Strategies and Problems

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 4, No. 1, 15-25, 2007

Knut Blind

2006

Enforcement Sharing and Commercial Piracy

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 3, No.1, 83-97, 2006

Dyuti S. Banerjee

Transactions Costs and Administered Markets: License Contracts for Music Performance Rights

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 3, No.1, 61-74, 2006

Michael A. Einhorn

Piracy Accommodation and the Optimal Timing of Royalty Payments

Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 3, No.1, 43-60, 2006

Alan E. Woodfield

Digital File Sharing and Royalty Contracts in the Music Industry: A Theoretical Analysis

Norbert J. Michel

Bargaining Theory and Royalty Contract Negotiations

Abhinay Muthoo

Licensing and Royalty Contracts for Copyright

Richard Watt

Copyright and Creativity: An Application of Cultural Economics

Ruth Towse

DRMS, Economics, Copyright and Competition Law: The Australian Experience - The Economic Implications of Stevens v Sony

Yee Lim

Music Product as a Durable Good and Online Piracy

Sougata Poddar

Copyright: A Plea for Empirical Research

Ivan P. L. Png

Plain Destruction or Creative Destruction? Copyright Erosion and the Evolution of the Record Industry

Christian W. Handke

Piracy and the Demand for Films: Analysis of Piracy Behavior in French Universities

David Bounie, Patrick Waelbroeck and Marc Bourreau

2005

The Economic Contribution of Copyright-Based Industries in Singapore

Kit B. Chow

Free Software and Intellectual Property in Brazil: Threats, Opportunites and Motivations

Antonio M. Buainain and Cassia I. C. Mendes

The Recording Industry's Digital Dilemma: Challenges and Opportunities in High Piracy Markets

Brett Keintz

P2P Music Sharing Networks: Why the Legal Fight Against Copiers May Be Inefficient

Fabrice Rochelandet and Fabrice Le Guel

DRMS: A New Strategic Stake for Content Industries: The Case of the Online Music Market

Joelle Farchy and Heritiana Ranaivoson

Digital File Sharing and the Music Industry: Was There a Substitution Effect?

Norbert J. Michel

Introduction

Marcel Boyer and Gilles McDougall

Copyright Levies as an Alternative Compensation Method for Recording Artists and Technological Development

Ville Oksanen and Mikko Valimaki

Intellectual Property: How the Right to Keep it to Yourself Can Facilitate Dissemination

William J. Baumol

OSS Production and Licensing Strategies of Software Firms

Heli A. Koski

Why Did Schumpeter Neglect Intellectual Property Rights?

Mark Blaug

Economists' Topsy-Turvy View of Piracy

Stan J. Liebowitz

Intellectual Property and the Efficient Allocation of Social Surplus from Creation

Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine

Creative Pricing in Markets for Intellectual Property

William R Johnson

The Limits of Indirect Appropriability in Markets for Copiable Goods

Justin P. Johnson and Michael Waldman

Indirect Appropriability 20 Years on

Richard Watt

2004

Intellectual Property Rights and Cultural Heritage: The Case of Non-Cumulative and Non-Degenerative Creation

Veronique Chossat and Christian Barrere

Should We Put Them in Jail? Copyright Infringement, Penalties and Consumer Behaviour: Insights from Experimental Data

Anna Maffioletti and Giovanni Battista Ramello

The Effect of Internet Piracy on Music Sales: Cross-Section Evidence

Martin Peitz and Patrick Waelbroeck

P2P and Piracy: Challenging the Cultural Industries' Financing System

Joelle Farchy

The End of Copyright History?

Paul A. David

Sunk Costs, Free-Riding Justifications, and Compulsory Licensing of Interfaces

Net Le

Efficiency Considerations in Copyright Protection

Marcel Boyer

Guest Editors' Foreword

Francesco Silva and Giovanni Battista Ramello

The Elusive Symbiosis: The Impact of Radio on the Record Industry

Stan J. Liebowitz

The Socially Desirable Size of Copyright Fees

William J. Baumol

A Comment: Number-Crunching is Not Just a Neutral Activity

Ruth Towse

A Comment: The 'Copyright Factors'

Richard Watt

The Economic Contribution of the Copyright-Based Sector in the Netherlands

Jules Theeuwes

The WIPO Guide on Surveying the Economic Contribution of the Copyright Industries

Dimiter Gantchev

Some Challenges for Copyright-Related Quantification

Jeremy Thorpe

Issues in Assessment of the Economic Impact of Copyright

Robert Picard and Timo Toivonen

In Search of a Methodology to Assess the Copyright Industries in Developing Countries: The Experience of Mercosur and Chile

Antonio M. Buainain

Book Review: The Economics of Copyright: Developments in Research and Analysis, by W. J. Gordon and R. Watt (Eds.)

Michael J. Rushton

The Measurement of Copyright Industries: The US Experience

Steve Siwek

The Past and the Future of the Economics of Copyright

Richard Watt

When Should the Bell Toll? The Economics of New Zealand's Debate on Indirect Liability for Internet Copyright Infringement

Alan E. Woodfield

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