Copyright Abolition and Attribution

Depoorter Ben, Holland Adam and Somerstein Elizabeth
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Depoorter Ben: University of Miami Law School; Stanford Law School
Holland Adam: Stanford Law School
Somerstein Elizabeth: Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University

Review of Law & Economics, 2009, vol. 5, issue 3, 1063-1080

Abstract: An increasing number of scholarly voices challenge the balance between incentives and deadweight losses created by intellectual property rights. In their book Against Intellectual Monopoly (2008), Boldrin and Levine) move beyond pragmatic calls to fine-tune the scope of intellectual property rights to question the very premises of the quid pro quo underlying the intellectual property rights system. In this brief essay, we contemplate the effects of removing traditional copyright protection. We draw upon the available literature in economic theory and copyright scholarship to examine the likely incentive effects of copyright abolition on authors, while considering the available non-legal forms of remuneration for authors. Furthermore, we contemplate a version of copyright protection grounded and limited to a mandatory right of attribution.

Date: 2009
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