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Copyright's Excess: Money and Music in the US Recording Industry
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Glynn Lunney (Author)
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For more than two hundred years, copyright in the United States has rested on a simple premise: more copyright will lead to more money for copyright owners, and more money will lead to more original works of authorship. In this important, illuminating book, Glynn Lunney tests that premise by tracking the rise and fall of the sound recording copyright from 1961-2015, along with the associated rise and fall in sales of recorded music. Far from supporting copyright's fundamental premise, the empirical evidence finds the exact opposite relationship: more revenue led to fewer and lower-quality hit songs. Lunney's breakthrough research shows that what copyright does is vastly increase the earnings of our most popular artists and songs, which - net result - means fewer hit songs. This book should be read by anyone interested in how copyright operates in the real world. Worked examples or Exercises; 12 Tables, black and white; 46 Line drawings, black and white
About the Author
Glynn Lunney is a professor at Texas A&M University School of Law. He holds an engineering degree from Texas A&M, a law degree from Stanford, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Tulane University, New Orleans. He is an internationally recognized scholar on copyright law and the economics of copyright. He has testified before Congress and appeared before the European Commission on copyright issues. Professor Lunney has published a casebook, Trademarks and Unfair Competition (Second Edition, 2015), and has also published numerous articles in leading law reviews, including those of Stanford, Michigan, Virginia, Vanderbilt, Emory, and Boston University.
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- Contributor: Glynn Lunney
- Imprint: Cambridge University Press
- ISBN13: 9781107181670
- Number of Pages: 248
- Packaged Dimensions: 157x236x19mm
- Packaged Weight: 470
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Release Date: 2018-04-12
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Glynn Lunney is a professor at Texas A&M University School of Law. He holds an engineering degree from Texas A&M, a law degree from Stanford, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Tulane University, New Orleans. He is an internationally recognized scholar on copyright law and the economics of copyright. He has testified before Congress and appeared before the European Commission on copyright issues. Professor Lunney has published a casebook, Trademarks and Unfair Competition (Second Edition, 2015), and has also published numerous articles in leading law reviews, including those of Stanford, Michigan, Virginia, Vanderbilt, Emory, and Boston University.
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