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Costos Sin Beneficios Análisis Económico Del Artículo 5 Bis Recientemente Incorporado Al Régimen De La Propiedad Intelectual, Maximiliano Marzetti Jan 2010

Costos Sin Beneficios Análisis Económico Del Artículo 5 Bis Recientemente Incorporado Al Régimen De La Propiedad Intelectual, Maximiliano Marzetti

Maximiliano Marzetti

El AED sirve para muchas cosas, en éste caso para atacar los pseudo-argumentos de una ley económicamente ineficiente y para descubrir los ganadores y perdedores de una reforma legislativa.

La reciente ley Nº 26.570 (que ha pasado casi desapercibida para la mayoría de los argentinos) incorpora el artículo 5 bis al Régimen de la Propiedad Intelectual (Ley Nº 11.723).

Un sólo artículo ha sido suficiente para extender el monopolio económico de artístas-intérpretes y productores de fonogramas por 20 años más (sin ninguna justificación valedera).

Han ganado los productores de fonogramas y las agencias de gestión colectiva; han perdido los consumidores …


When Users Are Authors: Authorship In The Age Of Digital Media, Alina Ng Dec 2009

When Users Are Authors: Authorship In The Age Of Digital Media, Alina Ng

Alina Ng

This Article explores what authorship and creative production means in the digital age. Notions of the author as the creator of the work provided a point of reference for recognizing ownership rights in literary and artistic works in conventional copyright jurisprudence. The role of the author, as the creator and producer of a work, has been seen as distinct and separate from that of the publisher and user. Copyright laws and customary norms protect the author’s rights in his creation to provide the incentive to create and allow him to appropriate the social value generated by his creativity as recognition …


Chapter 7 - Restricting Fair Use To Save The News, Ryan T. Holte Dec 2009

Chapter 7 - Restricting Fair Use To Save The News, Ryan T. Holte

Prof. Ryan T. Holte

Ryan T. Holte in “Restricting Fair Use to Save the News: A Proposed Change in Copyright Law to Bring More Profit to News Reporting” examines the present condition of the media and the economic and public policies behind protecting news. He further discusses current means of protecting information through copyright and misappropriation law, before proposing a change in the Copyright Act to better allow the news industry to reap profits from news reporting.