| Tittel: | Copyright and the currency of creativity: beyond income | | Ansvar: | Alexander Cuntz | | Forfatter: | Cuntz, Alexander  | | Materialtype: | Artikkel - elektronisk | | Signatur: | WIPO Magazine | | Utgitt: | Geneva : WIPO, 2019 | | Omfang: | S. 14-19 | | ISBN/ISSN: | 1564-7854 | | Serie: | WIPO Magazine ; 3/2019 | | Emneord: | Copyright | | Innhold: | New research by WIPO shows that a wide range of factors, and not income alone, motivates creators to engage in creative activity and explores what this means for copyright policy and public funding of the arts.
Legal scholars worry about the increasing disconnect between the formal exercise of rights conferred by copyright law and the underlying economic purpose of copyright law, which is to provide the incentives to create and distribute works. Much of the conversation surrounding the effects of copyright policy focuses on monetary incentives and how well such incentives guide the allocation of resources around creative expressions and works. However, these debates fail to recognize that artists’ motivations are wide-ranging and often driven by non-monetary considerations. In this context, copyright law as it is may not achieve its full potential as a mechanism to generate incentives for creativity. Why? Because the motivators that drive creators are not reflected adequately in current copyright law and practice. In fact, a mismatch may exist among the factors that motivate creators, how they behave, and the incentives certain elements of copyright law provide.
(Artikkelens innledning) | | Del av verk: | WIPO Magazine 3/2019 |
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