This paper tries to reveal the tansformation of information from "cultural product" to "economic good", to highlight its specific characters in the market economy framework and to make evaluations and references to the present situation and the future scenario. This change began as a result of...

La perequazione urbanistica è stata introdotta di recente dai Comuni di Roma e di Milano, oltre che dal legislatore. Questa tecnica, sviluppata con prudenza e con obiettivi perequativi precisi negli Usa, viene interpretata in Italia in modo molto meno accurato e, soprattutto, viene fi nalizzata...

The present paper analyses the relationship between competition and copyright law, paying special attention to two recent antitrust proceedings, the Italian Groupe Canal+/Stream and the European NDC Health/IMS Health. In particular the article attempts to interpret the existence of objective...

This article is aimed at providing an answer from the economics perspective to the puzzling Shakespearean question "What's in a name ?", specifically paying attention to the case of trademark, a commercial device used since antiquity and continuously expanding its boundaries. Its advent is...