Creators and performers earnings from copyright

Ruth Towse

Chapter 18 in Teaching Cultural Economics, 2020, pp 129-139 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Copyright protects the work of creators and performers from being copied without their permission, enabling them to control its use and so to require payment for it. What that payment is – usually a royalty – depends upon conditions in the market in which it is used. The chapter discusses the outcome in terms of income from copyright, using evidence from one of the early surveys of copyright earnings, and shows how the results can be presented using the Lorenz curve to demonstrate both low and also how unequal earnings are.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Teaching Methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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