Dead poets' property—how does copyright influence price?
Abstract: Copyrights create long‐lived intellectual property in goods ranging from science, literature, and music to news, film, and software. The economic effects of copyright, however, are difficult to identify in modern settings. This article exploits an unintended differential increase in copyri...
| Publicado en: | RAND Journal of Economics (Wiley-Blackwell) Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 181 - 206 |
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