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From Bards To Search Engines: Finding What Readers Want From Ancient Times To The World Wide Web, Stephen Maurer Dec 2015

From Bards To Search Engines: Finding What Readers Want From Ancient Times To The World Wide Web, Stephen Maurer

Stephen M. Maurer

Copyright theorists often ask how incentives can be designed to create better books, movies, and art. But this is not the whole story. As the Roman satirist Martial pointed out two thousand years ago, markets routinely ignore good and even excellent works. The insight reminds us that incentives to find content are just as necessary as incentives to make it. Recent social science research explains why markets fail and how timely interventions can save deserving titles from oblivion. This article reviews society’s long struggle to fix the vagaries of search since the invention of literature. We build on this history …


Open Source Software The Success Of An Alternative Intellectual Property Incentive Paradigm, Marcus Maher Mar 2000

Open Source Software The Success Of An Alternative Intellectual Property Incentive Paradigm, Marcus Maher

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

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The Internet And Decisional Institutions The Structural Advantages Of Online Common Law Regulation, Thomas K. Richards Mar 2000

The Internet And Decisional Institutions The Structural Advantages Of Online Common Law Regulation, Thomas K. Richards

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

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Special 301 In China And Mexico: A Policy Which Fails To Consider How Politics, Economics, And Culture Affect Legal Change Under Civil Law Systems Of Developing Countries, Keshia B. Haskins Mar 1999

Special 301 In China And Mexico: A Policy Which Fails To Consider How Politics, Economics, And Culture Affect Legal Change Under Civil Law Systems Of Developing Countries, Keshia B. Haskins

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.