Proposed legislation in California (Assembly Bill No. 437) aims to prohibit actors from voluntarily selling something they are willing to sell— contractual exclusivity. In this BULLETIN, we demonstrate that the proposed California legislation will reduce the compensation to actors, either...

Prior to the invention of the Internet, shopping for goods was relatively simple: a consumer visited a brick-and-mortal retailer and selected a product from what was available or, for some retailers, shopped using a catalog. Today, a simple Internet search may return a bewildering number of...

Over the past two decades, digital piracy has wreaked havoc on the music industry, with industry revenues falling over 60% between 1999 and 2009. Despite rising income from streaming services, total revenues (in real dollars) today remain well-below their historic peaks. Adding misery to an...

This Article presents a legal and economic framework for analyzing municipal broadband. Economics predicts, and the evidence confirms, that municipal broadband is in almost all scenarios subsidized entry, covering capital costs and losses with tax dollars and other internal transfers....

When a terrestrial radio station plays a song during its over-the-air broadcast, the artists and their record labels receive no compensation for the sound recording right. Yet radio's digital competitors — including streaming services and satellite radio — do pay performance royalties to...

A consortium of satellite service providers have proposed to repurpose by private sale a large portion of a 500 MHz swath of mid-band spectrum known as the C-Band. As is common, the plan faces some resistance, with much of the opposition preferring a public auction rather than a private sale. In...

Copyright provides broad protection for artists and creators, but these rights are not without limit. In the United states, for instance, the U.S. Copyright Act permits the “fair use” of copyrighted works without infringing under certain circumstances. Other nations overwhelmingly employ the...