[Advocacy Advisors] Interesting read - The Valuation of Unprotected Works: A Case Study

[Nikolas Becker]

This study really makes some interesting points, e.g.:

"More specifically, our study suggests that massive social harm was
done by the most recent copyright term extension that has prevented
millions of works from falling into the public domain since 1998." p. 29

2015-02-05 18:27 GMT+01:00 Stéphane Coillet-Matillon <
stephane.coillet at mail.wikimedia.ch>:

>
> *tl;dr: *public domain works used as illustrations increase traffic and
> would cost about $250 millions a year to the project had they been
> copyrighted.
>
> http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2560572
>
>

-- 
Nikolas Becker
Mitglied des Präsidiums / Member of the Board
-------------------------------------
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin

www.wikimedia.de

Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B.
Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin,
Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/advocacy_advisors/attachments/20150206/1e806a19/attachment.html>