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Batman forever? The economics of overlapping rights.
2020
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Title
Batman forever? The economics of overlapping rights.
Variant Title
Economic Research Working Paper No. 61
Item Type
Book
Description
52 pages ; [28] cm.
ISSN
2957-8256
Summary
When copyrighted comic characters are also protected under trademark laws, intellectual property (IP) rights can be overlapping. Arguably, registering a trademark can increase transaction costs for cross-media uses of characters, or it can help advertise across multiple sales channels. In an application to book, movie and video game publishing industries, we thus ask how creative reuse (innovation in uses) is affected in situations of overlapping rights, and whether ‘fuzzy boundaries’ of right frameworks are in fact enhancing or decreasing content sales.
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Type of File
Print publication
Series
Economics Working Papers.
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Published
Geneva, Switzerland : World Intellectual Property Organization, 2020.
Language
English
Copyright Information
License: CC BY 3.0 IGO
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Economic Research Working Papers
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