Copyrights, criminal sanctions and economic rents: applying the rent seeking model to the criminal law formulation process.
The writer argues that the traditional public choice model of rent seeking can explain the increase in criminal sanctions for copyright infringements. He notes how the penalties for infringement of a copyright have increased since the 1970s and contends that the decision to increase criminal penalt...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology Vol. 87; pp. 1470 - 1511 |
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Northwestern University
Summer97
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| Sumario: | The writer argues that the traditional public choice model of rent seeking can explain the increase in criminal sanctions for copyright infringements. He notes how the penalties for infringement of a copyright have increased since the 1970s and contends that the decision to increase criminal penalties was driven by interest groups seeking copyrights protected by criminal sanctions as a means of restricting entry into an increasingly profitable market. |
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