Volume 1, No. 2 - April 16, 2004

• Introduction to Volume 1, No. 2

• Alternative Copy Systems: The Problems with a Compulsory License, by Stanley J. Leibowitz, (Vol. 1, No. 2, May 6, 2004) PDF | HTML

• Copyrighted Goods as Public Goods, by Michael Abramowicz, (Vol. 1, No. 2, May 6, 2004) PDF | HTML

• Why Be Creative? Motivation and Copyright Law in a Digital Era, by Katherine A. Lawrence, (Vol. 1, No. 2, May 6, 2004) PDF | HTML

Because of the contentious problems of enforcing copyright in a digital age, some have suggested that the world needs to move to entirely new models for funding creative work. While the suggestion has not been developed comprehensively, the general idea is that creative products would be freely available over the Internet, that a tax of some kind would be levied on hardware and/or on communication services, and that the would be proceeds be divvied up among creators pursuant to some formula.

The authors in this isssue of IPcentral Review take a serious look at this concept. S. J. Liebowitz of the School of Management at the University of Texas, Dallas, has written the centerpiece. Michael Abramowicz, Professor of Law at George Mason University Law School, extends the analysis. Katherine Lawrence, an organizational theorist studying at the University of Michigan, adds a different perspective, examining the motives that lead creators to create in the first place.

Like the articles published in Volume 1, these papers are the fruits of the Conference on Promoting Markets in Creativity that was sponsored jointly by the Progress & Freedom Foundation and the Tech Center of George Mason University Law School in June 2003. (We should add that the authors completed their work in September 2003 - the delay in making the work available is due to delays in getting IPcentral.info into operation.)