What happens when books enter the public domain?

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What happens when books enter the public domain?

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Libre Culture@lemmy.ml · 5 years ago

What happens when books enter the public domain? - Kluwer Copyright Blog

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Copyright’s underuse hypothesis is simple: that, unless publishers are assured of exclusive rights in older works, they won’t continue to invest in making them available. This of course contradicts a core tenet of classical economic theory, that investors will continue to produce copies of books (or anything else) so long as they can expect to... Continue reading

Interesting analysis of copyright effect on book investment.

TL;DR:

These results suggest that, at least for older, culturally valuable works with low fixed and marginal costs of production and distribution, underinvestment may flow from the existence of copyright rights, rather than from their absence.

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