This paper explores how social capital and property regulations shape cultural producers'
ability to own copyrights for the products they create. Because individual producers lack the …

Earning an income in our time often involves ownership of or control over creative assets.
Employing the law and philosophy of economics, this illuminating book explores the legal …

Our paper tests a key prediction of property rights theory, specifically, that agents will
respond to marginal incentives embedded in property rights when making non-contractible …

Copyright law is widely perceived as the means to promote social welfare by providing a
necessary incentive for intellectual creation. However, there has been little clarity in …

What determines the boundaries of the firm? In this paper, we explore that question, using
the Grossman, Hart, and Moore property rights theory (PRT) and employing a unique proxy …

Economists, sociologists, and legal scholars agree that intellectual-property law is
fundamental to markets because legal control over copying motivates creative production …

This paper investigates whether and to what extent there is a conflict of interest between
artists and their publishers, regarding to whether and to what degree illegal distributions of …

This chapter argues that copyright's commodification of creativity has established a structure
that enables the domination of cultural output by multinational media and entertainment …

The purpose of my research is to examine the music industry from both the perspective of a
musician and a lawyer, and draw real conclusions regarding where the music industry is …

Reaching high levels of artistic creation in a society requires institutions that facilitate the
sorting of the most talented individuals of each generation and the development of their …