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Forever Minus a Day? Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright Term

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Pollock, Rufus

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The optimal term of copyright has been a matter for extensive debate over the last decade. Using a simple model we characterise optimal term as a function of a few key parameters. We estimate this function using a combination of new and existing data on recordings and books and find an optimal term of around fifteen years. This is substantially shorter than any current copyright term and implies that existing copyright terms are too long.

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Paper provided by University Library of Munich, Germany in its series MPRA Paper with number 8887.

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Date of creation: Jan 2008
Date of revision: 15 May 2008
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Keywords: Copyright Intellectual Property Copyright Term

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O34 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Intellectual Property Rights
L10 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - General
O31 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives

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