Copyrights grant creators long periods of market exclusivity during which they or their agents have the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute their works. However, copyright exceptions limit their scope and strength. The laws on both copyright protection and copyright exceptions vary substanti...

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1. Verfasser:	Palmedo, Michael (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Abschlussarbeit Elektronisch Tagungsbericht E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Washington, D.C. American University 2022
Schlagworte:	Intellectual property Copyright Comparative law Economics Propriété intellectuelle Droit d'auteur Droit comparé Économie politique intellectual property copyright economics dissertations Academic theses Thèses et écrits académiques Hochschulschrift
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Zusammenfassung:	Copyrights grant creators long periods of market exclusivity during which they or their agents have the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute their works. However, copyright exceptions limit their scope and strength. The laws on both copyright protection and copyright exceptions vary substantially from one country to the next. The three essays that comprise this dissertation demonstrate how these differences can be measured, and explore how changes in copyright exceptions relate to the production of knowledge goods and technological innovation. The first chapter introduces a novel, survey-based dataset that describes changes to 25 countries' laws on copyright exceptions over time. To explore the data, I construct two indices from subsets of the dataset; one that focus on exceptions related to internet communications technologies (ICT) and another that focuses on educational uses. The indices show that copyright exceptions have grown more robust since 1990, and that wealthier countries tend to have more developed exceptions than poorer ones. Initial empirical tests suggest that exceptions related to ICT technologies are more robust in countries with larger ICT sectors, and exceptions for educational uses are more robust in countries with higher educational attainments. Both types of exceptions are negatively associated with the share of GDP produced by the copyright-producing industries. There is weaker evidence of a positive association between both types of copyright exceptions and GDP per capita. Countries generally have exceptions that are more robust when they have entered into trade agreements with the U.S., though bilateral American pressure to strengthen copyright protection is associated with weaker exceptions related to ICT technologies. The second chapter uses a subset of the dataset to study the link between copyright exceptions for academic researchers and the published output by scholars in in each of the countries. It starts by acknowledging that high prices restrict access to academic journals and books that scholars rely upon to author new research. A hypothesized solution is the expansion of copyright exceptions allowing unauthorized access to copyrighted works for researchers. I test the link between copyright exceptions for health and science researchers in each country, and researchers' publishing output at the country-subject level. I find that scientists residing in countries that implement more robust research exceptions publish more papers and books in subsequent years. This relationship between copyright exceptions and publishing is stronger in lower-income countries, and it is stronger where there is stricter copyright protection of existing works.
Beschreibung:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-11, Section: A. Advisor: Walter Park American University, Department of Economics
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (xiii, 139 Seiten) Diagramme
ISBN:	9798426822597