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Reconceptualising Copyright Law For The Creative Economy Through The Lens Of Evolutionary Economics, Sampsung Xiaoxiang Shi, Brian Fitzgerald

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Modern innovation theory posits the notion of “information flow” as a key ingredient of innovation. In turn copyright law is a key determinant of “information flow”. While copyright law is meant to incentivise creativity in order to promote the dissemination or flow of information - in recent years - copyright law has acted to inhibit information flow. In this chapter we argue that copyright law needs to be recast in a way that promotes information flow.