Copyright and Antitrust Issues

Copyright and Antitrust Issues

Copyright Issues for MKM

We present an overview of the current situation and recent and expected future developments in areas of copyright law and economics relevant to Mathematical Knowledge Management.

Antitrust Issues In Network Industries

I analyze how antitrust law and sectoral regulatory rules should be applied to network industries. I first identify a number of relevant features of network industries that may affect the way in which antitrust law and regulatory rules should be applied. These relevant features include (among others) network effects, market structure, market share and profits inequality, choice of technical sta...

Traditional Music and Copyright -the Issues

Copyright is an intellectual property right, meaning that it can be bought or sold like any other form of property. The first owner of a copyright is the creator of a literary or artistic work. The owner of copyright in a work has the exclusive right to do, or to authorise anyone else to do certain things with the whole or any substantial part of the work. These things are called the acts restr...

Supply of Software: Copyright and Contract Issues

When copyright law developed producing infringing copies was a matter which was made very difficult as a result of the expense and expertise required. Advances in modern technology such as the photocopier, the cassette tape recorder, CD writers and DVD recording machines have made copying a cheap and fast process. Computer technology has produced a new environment which not only facilitates the...