Digital piracy is a worldwide concern. Both very high and very\u00a0low rates of intellectual property infringement threaten innovation,\u00a0thus implying that some level of effective copyright regulation is\u00a0required to incentivize the creation of original works. However,\u00a0although Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights\u00a0advocates for social access to culture as well as the protection of\u00a0copyright, many countries do not yet have an economic and legal\u00a0balance between authors and consumers.
\nThis article aims to identify which copyright law measures are\u00a0more related to low\/high digital piracy rates. To address that\u00a0question, the author presents a picture of how the world of\u00a0copyright is today. The empirical law and economics methodology\u00a0used in this paper thus consists of a content analysis of\u00a0significantly selected copyright law measures that have been more\u00a0or less broadly implemented, or that have been dismissed by 108\u00a0countries in their current national copyright statutes. After\u00a0processing the resultant database (or coding scheme) with\u00a0econometric and descriptive statistical tools, the findings suggest\u00a0that: (1) the legal measures correlated to high digital piracy rates\u00a0include the sweat of the brow doctrine and secondary liability\u00a0rules for Internet Service Providers (\u201cISPs\u201d); (2) the measures\u00a0most connected to low piracy rates are private copying and fair use provisions; (3) statutes that favor copyright holders are\u00a0associated with greater rates of digital piracy; and (4) richer\u00a0countries show lower levels of copyright infringement, which\u00a0validates the development economics theory. Because there is no\u00a0extant literature on this topic, these results constitute the first step\u00a0toward a comprehensive cross-national quantitative study on\u00a0comparative copyright law and digital piracy, both in descriptive\u00a0and explanatory terms.
\nWithout doubt, this project will excite scholars in economics\u00a0and intellectual property but will also intrigue international\u00a0policymakers as the outcomes of this study provide core policy\u00a0guidelines on copyright that legislatures and governments around\u00a0the world can implement. These interdisciplinary\u00a0recommendations are in line with designing a new and\u00a0economically viable regulatory copyright model which aims to\u00a0reduce piracy rates and to solve the global tension between\u00a0authors and consumers in the digital era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Digital piracy is a worldwide concern. Both very high and very\u00a0low rates of intellectual property infringement threaten innovation,\u00a0thus implying that some level of effective copyright regulation is\u00a0required to incentivize the creation of original works. However,\u00a0although Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights\u00a0advocates for social access to culture as well as the protection of\u00a0copyright, …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,74,75],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7157,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4720\/revisions\/7157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.law.unc.edu\/ncjolt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}