How to Best Ensure Remuneration for Creators in the Market for Music? Copyright and its Alternatives

By Stan J. Liebowitz, Richard Watt. 2006

290 citations recorded by the source corpus.

The focus of this essay is to examine the market for copyrighted works with a particular emphasis on the sound recording market. This market is currently in a state of flux, some would say disarray, due to the ability of the Internet to lower transmission costs for both authorized and unauthorized copies, with the latter being, at this time, far more prevalent. In this essay we discuss the intent of copyright, the role of copying and file-sharing, and some alternative production/consumption schemes meant to strengthen or to replace copyright.

Subfields: Information Systems, Law, Marketing

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Citations in the corpus

• Indigenous Knowledge and Intellectual Property: A Sustainability Agenda (2006, unknown): “Are there any alternatives to the widely accepted and fast globalizing intellectual protection laws? Is there a way of dealing with intellectual property that could provide recognition and economic rewards outside the WIPO and WTO laws? The paper by Liebowitz and Watt (2006) in this issue poses simi”
• UNIVERSITY RESEARCH, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND EUROPEAN INNOVATION SYSTEMS (2006, unknown): “But property rights also include copyrights (see Towse, 2006; Liebowitz and Watt, 2006), and trademarks (see Ramello, 2006).”