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Copyright Protection and Cumulative Creation: Evidence from Early Twentieth-Century Music
This article uses information from an online database of music sampling to estimate the effect of copyright protection on the cumulative use of music. Using unique panel data that link upstream and downstream music, the author uses regression…
Getting Permission: How to License & Clear Copyrighted Materials Online & Off
Getting Permission offers a simple look into the copyright permission process, as well as going over content that is in the public domain and the "fair use" law, in addition to other intricacies related to the process of obtaining permission from…
Exploring the Evolution of Access: Classified, Privacy, and Proprietary Restrictions
The three authors of this article discuss three different repositories which house confidential, legally protected content and describe measures each institution takes to balance the archival values of preserving and providing access to its holdings…
Bibliographic Indeterminacy and the Scale of Problems and Opportunities of “Rights” in Digital Collection Building
John P. Wilkin, executive director of HathiTrust and associate research librarian for the University of Michigan, provides an in-depth report on the current percentages of published works that are at various stages of public domain and in-copyright.…
Copyright Protection of Letters, Diaries, and Other Unpublished Works: An Economic Approach
The author talks about one of the most controversial questions in copyright law today concerns the proper scope of protection for unpublished works, a few examples of these are letters, diaries, journals, reports, and/or drafts that the owner of it…