THE PROPOSED COPYRIGHT in the Digital Single Market Directive (COM(2016)593) of July 2016 would introduce a new intellectual property right for publishers of press publications, or ‘PIP’. Publishers would have the exclusive right to authorize or prohibit any reproduction (in whole or in...

The famous author E.B. White once stated, “Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process.” Interestingly, this quote was raised by the Hon. Kimba M. Wood in the renowned contracts case Leonard v. Pepsico, when determining whether a comical commercial should be...

Copyright law grants the exclusive right to copyright owners so that they have adequate financial incentives to create and innovate. However, when firms are copyright owners, they can leverage the exclusive right to sell or distribute products exclusively. This paper studies the music streaming...

Late last year, a federal court sided with the Department of Justice and blocked the planned merger of book publishers Simon & Schuster and Penguin Random House. The decision was a rare collision between antitrust law and the deeply consolidated copyright content industries. Over the course of...

“Copyright Industries in the U.S. Economy: 2022 Report”, examines the contribution of copyright industries to the U.S. economy. Dr. Dutra and Dr. Stoner expanded on previous versions of the report by demonstrating that the core copyright industries of the United States also play a vital role...

In the era of digitisation, datafication and computational uses of works, the scope of EU copyright is expanding and new EU legislative initiatives on data regulation, while aiming in principle at granting access to data, increasingly recognise and reinforce control over data through...

Intellectual property rights are fundamental to how economies organize innovation and steer the diffusion of knowledge. Copyright law, in particular, has developed constantly to keep up with emerging technologies and the interests of creators, consumers, and intermediaries of the different...

Copyright law grants copyright owners exclusive rights so that they have adequate financial incentives to create and innovate. However, when firms are copyright owners, they can leverage their right to sell or distribute products exclusively and thus obtain excessive financial gains. This paper...