TY  - BOOK
N2  - 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.
DO  - 10.34667/tind.42373
DO  - doi
AB  - 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.
T1  - Batman forever? The economics of overlapping rights.
AU  - Cuntz, Alexander;
AU  - Kaiser, Franziska.
L1  - https://tind.wipo.int/record/42373/files/wipo_pub_econstat_wp_61.pdf
LA  - eng
ID  - 42373
L4  - https://tind.wipo.int/record/42373/files/wipo_pub_econstat_wp_61.pdf
KW  - Fictitious characters
KW  - Comic books, strips, etc
KW  - Copyright
SN  - 2957-8256
TI  - Batman forever? The economics of overlapping rights.
L2  - https://tind.wipo.int/record/42373/files/wipo_pub_econstat_wp_61.pdf
LK  - https://tind.wipo.int/record/42373/files/wipo_pub_econstat_wp_61.pdf
LK  - https://www.wipo.int/edocs/infogdocs/creative_industries/#
UR  - https://tind.wipo.int/record/42373/files/wipo_pub_econstat_wp_61.pdf
UR  - https://www.wipo.int/edocs/infogdocs/creative_industries/#
ER  -