Creative Value Chains: Copyright and Beyond for a Better Value Distribution

by Yaniv Benhamou

Overview

Creative industries are increasingly dominated by digital platforms, yet the distribution of value within these sectors, from music and video games to visual arts, remains deeply unequal. Recent examples include the remuneration of artists on streaming platforms and the use of creative works in AI training data. This imbalance threatens human creativity and cultural diversity.

In this book, Benhamou exposes the flaws in current models of value allocation and the inequities embedded within copyright systems. Focusing on the often-overlooked contributors to creative works, the book advocates rethinking copyright through a lens of distributive justice to ensure equitable compensation for all stakeholders in the creative process, including individual creators, invisible workers and digital workers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781529249491
Publisher:	Bristol University Press
Publication date:	04/21/2026
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Yaniv Benhamou is Professor of Copyright and Information Law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Geneva.

Table of Contents

Part 1: History of Culture and Its Digitization

1. The Cultural and Creative Sector

2. The Digital Transformation of the Cultural and Creative Sector

3. The Future of Culture, and Demystification

Part 2: Solutions for a Fair Value Distribution and a Cultural Diversity

4. Political Solutions

5. Legal Solutions

6. Technological Solutions