{"id":3332,"date":"2010-10-24T11:30:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T11:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/?p=3332"},"modified":"2025-01-02T15:01:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T15:01:45","slug":"the-economics-of-copyright-levies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/2010\/10\/24\/the-economics-of-copyright-levies\/","title":{"rendered":"The economics of copyright levies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IPO \/ ESRC Seminar: <strong>The economics of copyright levies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>14 October 2010, 21 Bloomsbury Street, 10:30 \u2013 12:30<\/p>\n<p>As part of his ESRC Fellowship at the UK Intellectual Property Office, Professor <a title=\"Martin Kretschmer\" href=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/2014\/05\/13\/martin-kretschmer\/\">Martin Kretschmer<\/a> organised a seminar on the economics of copyright levies. See more details on Professor Kretschmer&#8217;s project on <a title=\"Private Copying and Fair Compensation: An empirical study of copyright levies in Europe\" href=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/2012\/04\/01\/private-copying-and-fair-compensation-an-empirical-study-of-copyright-levies-in-europe\/\">Private Copying and Fair Compensation<\/a>. Programme and notes from the discussions are below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Participants:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tony Clayton (chief economist, IPO)<\/li>\n<li>Dr Christian Handke (Erasmus University)<\/li>\n<li>David Humphries (senior policy advisor, IPO)<\/li>\n<li>Ben Mitra-Kahn (economic advisor, IPO)<\/li>\n<li>Prof. John Kay (economist, FT columnist)<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Martin Kretschmer (Bournemouth University, ESRC Fellow at IPO)<\/li>\n<li>Nick Munn (deputy director copyright, IPO)<\/li>\n<li>Ed Quilty (director of copyright, IPO)<\/li>\n<li>Joost Poort (SEO economic research, Amsterdam)<\/li>\n<li>Dr Fabrice Rochelandet (Universit\u00e9 Paris XI Sud)<\/li>\n<li>Dr Nicola Searle (Abertay University, AHRC\/ESRC Fellow at IPO)<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Ruth Towse (Erasmus\/Bournemouth University).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Agenda:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>10:30 \u2013 10:45<\/strong><br \/>\nWelcome &amp; Introductions<br \/>\nThe IPO Economic research programme<br \/>\nTony Clayton<\/p>\n<p><strong>10:45 \u2013 11:00<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat do we know about the operation of European levy systems?<br \/>\nMartin Kretschmer<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:00 \u2013 11:30<\/strong><br \/>\nDiscussion I (chair: Tony Clayton)<br \/>\nWhat is private copying?<br \/>\nShould there be a private copying exception? If so, why?<\/p>\n<p>Introductory summary of arguments from Gordon (1982\/2002)<br \/>\nChristian Handke<\/p>\n<p><strong>11:30 \u2013 12:00<\/strong><br \/>\nDiscussion II (chair: Ruth Towse)<br \/>\nIf there is an exception for private copying, should there be compensation?<\/p>\n<p>Introductory summary of arguments from Besen &amp; Kirby (1989)<br \/>\nBen Mitra\u2013Kahn<\/p>\n<p><strong>12:00 \u2013 12:30<\/strong><br \/>\nDiscussion III (chair: Martin Kretschmer)<br \/>\nWhat do we need to know about the operation of levy systems?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Circulated Papers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In preparation for the seminar, three papers were circulated:<\/p>\n<p>1. Stanley M. Besen and Sheila Nataraj Kirby (1989), \u201cPrivate Copying, Appropriability, and Optimal Copying Royalties\u201d, Journal of Law and Economics Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 255\u2013280 \u2013 Distinguishes the rationale for private copying exceptions (and compensation) under models of indirect and direct appropriability.<\/p>\n<p>2. Wendy J. Gordon (2002), \u201cThe \u2018Market Failure\u2019 and Intellectual Property: A Response to Professor Lunney\u201d&#8221;, 82 Boston University Law Review (B.U.L. Rev.) 1031 \u2013 A discussion of fair use exceptions as a response to market failure (an argument often used in support of removing private copying exceptions in the digital context).<\/p>\n<p>3. Jos\u00e9 Luis Ferreira (2010), \u201cCompensation for Private Copying: An Economic Analysis of Alternative Models\u201d, ENTER\u2013IE Business School (commissioned by Hewlett\u2013Packard Europe) \u2013 A recent, and rather bold, Spanish study finding that current European levy systems waste 51.2% of each Euro collected and do not offer any incentives. Ferreira discusses eight possible improvements: Europe\u2013wide harmonisation administered at national level, payment at retail level (rather than manufacturer), Europe\u2013wide harmonisation at EU level, free choice of collecting society, levy on copyright works, indirect tax (\u00e1 la VAT), national fund (\u00e1 la Norway), and clause in labour contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Symposium 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":842,"featured_media":3364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,13],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-3332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-symposia","category-uk-eu-ip-policy","tag-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/842"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3332"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3365,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332\/revisions\/3365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cippm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}