Description
'Role of Artistic Motivation for Copyright Policy': Copyright protection has been justified on different grounds but monetary incentive based theories have played an important role in copyright policy in the Anglo American jurisdictions. From the Statute of Anne to the recent Gowers Review of Intellectual Property in the UK the incentive-analysis has only strengthened its grip as a justification. For legal purposes, the main criticism for such utilitarian argument is whether such incentive is necessary at all. This paper will explore this criticism through the application of the incentive analysis, so far as it bites at the point of creation, both in an analog context and in the digital environment. In this respect the key sub-questions - does copyright protection in fact create an incentive for production and whether creative production would continue without such incentive will be analyzed. An additional important question, whether copyright protection can provide an incentive" will be posed and the role of artistic motivation on such issue which has been largely under recognized will be explored. This analysis will be done using existing literature from law, economics and sociology and findings from an empirical study conducted with artists working in the digital environment.| Period | 8 Apr 2009 |
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| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Leicester, United KingdomShow on map |