Abstract
The present article examines the impact of copyright term extension on the availability of new printed books written by Nobel Prize laureates in Literature. Building on research like Paul J. Heald’s, which suggest that extended copyrights can reduce book availability as publishers stop printing unsold works, the study uses two datasets from Amazon.com (2015 and 2023). The results show that, on average, copyrighted books have fewer printed editions compared to those in the public domain. This contradicts the assumption that copyright extension leads to increased distribution of copyrighted material and challenges the notion of the tragedy of the public domain.
| Translated title of the contribution | Libros fuera del estante y el problema de la extensión de derechos de autor: análisis empírico de libros escritos por autores del Premio Nobel de Literatura |
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| Original language | English |
| Article number | 9 |
| Pages (from-to) | 225-255 |
| Number of pages | 31 |
| Journal | Revista de Derecho Privado |
| Issue number | 48 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 10 Dec 2024 |
Keywords
- books out of the shelf
- Copyright
- Copyright extension
- tragedy of the public domain
