Edited by Ruth Towse, Professor of Economics of Creative Industries, CIPPM, Bournemouth University and CREATe Fellow in Cultural Economics, University of Glasgow, UK

• Contents: Preface Introduction 1. Copyright and the Cultural Industries: The Policymaker’s View 2. Copyright, Borrowed Images and Appropriation Art: An Economic Approach 3. Choice of Law Issues in Relation to Copyright 4. Copyright and Freedom of Expression: An Economic Analysis 5. Copyright in the Digital Age: The Economic Rationale 6. Copyright Compulsory Licensing and Incentives 7. Copyright and Corporate Power 8. The Abolition of Copyrights: Better for Artists, Third World Countries and the Public Domain 9. Copyright Societies Do Not Administer Individual Property Rights: The Incoherence of Institutional Traditions in Germany and the UK 10. Music Licensing in the Digital Age 11. Copyright Protection, Appropriability and New Cultural Behaviour 12. Performers in the Digital Era: Empirical Evidence from Japan 13. Creativity without a Copyright: Music Production in Vienna in the Late Eighteenth Century 14. Exploiting Museum Images 15. Copyright in the Digital Age: Opportunities and Drawbacks for Scientific Research 16. The Problems of Authors’ Property Rights Administration in Russia Index

'The chapters are well-written and thoroughly grounded, and cover a range of issues and topics. . . The introduction, by Ruth Towse, offers a good introduction to the concept of copyright, as well as outlining the remaining chapters. . . this is an excellent collection of papers on the issues confronting copyright in the cultural industries. . . This book should be required reading for all copyright policymakers, and is highly recommended for media managers and scholars who will be examining or having to deal with an increasingly problematic copyright structure.'

Edited by Ruth Towse, Professor of Economics of Creative Industries, CIPPM, Bournemouth University and CREATe Fellow in Cultural Economics, University of Glasgow, UK

• Contents: Preface Introduction 1. Copyright and the Cultural Industries: The Policymaker’s View 2. Copyright, Borrowed Images and Appropriation Art: An Economic Approach 3. Choice of Law Issues in Relation to Copyright 4. Copyright and Freedom of Expression: An Economic Analysis 5. Copyright in the Digital Age: The Economic Rationale 6. Copyright Compulsory Licensing and Incentives 7. Copyright and Corporate Power 8. The Abolition of Copyrights: Better for Artists, Third World Countries and the Public Domain 9. Copyright Societies Do Not Administer Individual Property Rights: The Incoherence of Institutional Traditions in Germany and the UK 10. Music Licensing in the Digital Age 11. Copyright Protection, Appropriability and New Cultural Behaviour 12. Performers in the Digital Era: Empirical Evidence from Japan 13. Creativity without a Copyright: Music Production in Vienna in the Late Eighteenth Century 14. Exploiting Museum Images 15. Copyright in the Digital Age: Opportunities and Drawbacks for Scientific Research 16. The Problems of Authors’ Property Rights Administration in Russia Index

'The chapters are well-written and thoroughly grounded, and cover a range of issues and topics. . . The introduction, by Ruth Towse, offers a good introduction to the concept of copyright, as well as outlining the remaining chapters. . . this is an excellent collection of papers on the issues confronting copyright in the cultural industries. . . This book should be required reading for all copyright policymakers, and is highly recommended for media managers and scholars who will be examining or having to deal with an increasingly problematic copyright structure.'

Edited by Ruth Towse, Professor of Economics of Creative Industries, CIPPM, Bournemouth University and CREATe Fellow in Cultural Economics, University of Glasgow, UK

• Contents: Preface Introduction 1. Copyright and the Cultural Industries: The Policymaker’s View 2. Copyright, Borrowed Images and Appropriation Art: An Economic Approach 3. Choice of Law Issues in Relation to Copyright 4. Copyright and Freedom of Expression: An Economic Analysis 5. Copyright in the Digital Age: The Economic Rationale 6. Copyright Compulsory Licensing and Incentives 7. Copyright and Corporate Power 8. The Abolition of Copyrights: Better for Artists, Third World Countries and the Public Domain 9. Copyright Societies Do Not Administer Individual Property Rights: The Incoherence of Institutional Traditions in Germany and the UK 10. Music Licensing in the Digital Age 11. Copyright Protection, Appropriability and New Cultural Behaviour 12. Performers in the Digital Era: Empirical Evidence from Japan 13. Creativity without a Copyright: Music Production in Vienna in the Late Eighteenth Century 14. Exploiting Museum Images 15. Copyright in the Digital Age: Opportunities and Drawbacks for Scientific Research 16. The Problems of Authors’ Property Rights Administration in Russia Index

'The chapters are well-written and thoroughly grounded, and cover a range of issues and topics. . . The introduction, by Ruth Towse, offers a good introduction to the concept of copyright, as well as outlining the remaining chapters. . . this is an excellent collection of papers on the issues confronting copyright in the cultural industries. . . This book should be required reading for all copyright policymakers, and is highly recommended for media managers and scholars who will be examining or having to deal with an increasingly problematic copyright structure.'