Copyright''s Excess - Money and Music in the Us Recording Industry

Informationen zum Autor Glynn Lunney is a professor at Texas A&M University School of Law. He holds an engineering degree from Texas A&M, a law degree from Stanford, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Tulane University, New Orleans. He is an internationally recognized scholar on copyright law and the economics of copyright. He has testified before Congress and appeared before the European Commission on copyright issues. Professor Lunney has published a casebook, Trademarks and Unfair Competition (Second Edition, 2015), and has also published numerous articles in leading law reviews, including those of Stanford, Michigan, Virginia, Vanderbilt, Emory, and Boston University. Klappentext Tests copyright's fundamental premise that more money will increase creative output using the US recording industry from 1962-2015. Zusammenfassung In the United States, copyright increases creative output. More copyright means more money, and more money means more music. This book tests that premise for the US recording industry from 1962–2015 and finds the opposite correlation. More copyright and more money meant less music. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The (surprisingly weak) economic case for copyright; 3. Copyright and revenue in the recording industry; 4. Measuring music output; 5. The search for a correlation: was more money associated with more or better music?; 6. More money meant less music; 7. Rationalizing copyright.

Product details

• Authors: Glynn Lunney
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781316632796
• ISBN: 978-1-316-63279-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; USA, LAW / Intellectual Property / General, Music Industry, c 2000 to c 2010, c 2000 to c 2009, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Copyright Law, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)