Artistic Creation and Intellectual Property: A Professional Career Approach

Francisco Alcalá and Miguel González Maestre ()
Additional contact information
Miguel González Maestre: Universidad de Murcia
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Miguel González-Maestre

No 2010103, Working Papers from Fundacion BBVA / BBVA Foundation

Abstract: Reaching high levels of artistic creation in a society requires institutions that facilitate the sorting of the most talented individuals of each generation and the development of their skills across artistic careers. This working paper takes a professional career approach to analyzing how copyright regulation affects artistic creation. It builds an overlapping-generations model of artists in which the number and average talent of senior artists in each period is linked to the number of young artists in previous periods. Long copyrights increase superstar market concentration and can reduce the number of young artists who are able to pursue artistic careers. As a result, in the long run, excessively long copyrights can reduce artistic creation, the average talent of artists, and social welfare.

Keywords: Copyrights; superstars; sorting of talent; artistic markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J44 L82 O34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 47
Date: 2010-12
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.fbbva.es/TLFU/dat/dt12_10_web.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found (http://www.fbbva.es/TLFU/dat/dt12_10_web.pdf [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.fbbva.es/TLFU/dat/dt12_10_web.pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Artistic Creation and Intellectual Property: A Professional Career Approach (2012)
Working Paper: Artistic Creation and Intellectual Property: A Professional Career Approach (2011)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fbb:wpaper:2010103

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Fundacion BBVA / BBVA Foundation Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Fundacion BBVA / BBVA Foundation ().