Copyright Versus Open Access
On the Organisation and International Political Economy of Access to Scientific Knowledge
Person: Scheufen, Marc
serial: International Law and Economics
Year: 2014
Language: English
Scope: 191 p.
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- Contents:
- This book addresses the recent debate about copyright law and its impact on the distribution of scientific knowledge from an economic perspective. The focus is on the question whether a copyright regime or an open access regime is better suited to the norms and organizational structure in a purely global science community. The book undertakes a thorough economic analysis of the academic journal market and showcases consequences of a regime change. It also takes account of the Digital Divide debate, reflecting issues in developing countries. Finally, a comprehensive analysis of legal action in the light of international Intellectual Property (IP) agreements offers prospects on the future of academic publishing.
- Marc Scheufen was a Ph. D. student and a grant holder at the DFG Graduate School 'The Economics of the Internationalization of the Law' and the Institute of Law and Economics, University of Hamburg, Germany. He studied economics and graduated 2010. After conducting research as an intern and later visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Competition Law and Intellectual Property in Munich, he joined the team at the DFG Graduate School in summer 2010. He was a visiting researcher at the University of California, Berkeley in 2012 and at the Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin, Italy in 2011. In July 2012, Mr. Scheufen and his co-author Frank Mueller-Langer received the 'Best Paper Prize' by the Society of Economic Research on Copyright Issues (SERCI) at the society's annual congress in Washington DC, USA.
Title Information
Title: Copyright Versus Open Access
serial: International Law and Economics
Person: Scheufen, Marc
Publisher : Springer International Publishing
ISBN: 9783319127392
Category: Non-Fiction & Guidebooks, Information & Documentation, Information Management
File size: 4 MB
Format: PDF
Loan period: 21 days