Copyright clearance is an increasingly complex and expensive impediment to the digitization and reuse of information. Clearing copyright issues in a reliable and cost-effective manner for works created in the last 100 years can involve establishing complex provenance chains for the works, their copyrights, and their licenses. This paper gives an overview of some of the practical provenance-rela...

The economic importance of copyright industries in developed market economies has been well documented. Although less important in developing countries, this could change with the spread of information technologies. This paper first addresses how copyrights underpin the modern music industry, and in particular the role copyrights and cooperation among individuals and firms play in creating and ...

Copyright collectives are groups of individual copyright holders who join together in order to save on the important transactions costs that exist in the market for their individual rights. However, transactions costs savings are not the only manner in which copyright holders can benefit from the collective administration of their copyrights. In particular, whenever there is uncertainty as to t...

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Nowadays, the issue of protecting copyrights of digital contents has become very much critical owing to the swift growth of the Internet. Protecting the high-value digital assets and controlling the distribution and usage of those digital assets are the tasks of the Digital Rights Management (DRM) system. Watermarking technologies are being looked upon as promising means to safe guard the copyr...