Copyright law and the supply of creative work: Evidence from the movies

• Main Authors: PNG, Ivan Paak Liang, QIU-HONG WANG
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• 主題: Copyright term extension; European Rental Directive; Movie production; OECD countries; Intellectual Property Law
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research_smu/54; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1053&context=sis_research_smu

There is almost no empirical evidence on the extent to whichcopyright law works in the sense of increasing the production of creative work.Here, we study the impact of two major changes in copyright law – the extensionof copyright term and the European Rental Directive – on the production ofmovies....