Remuneration of Copyright Owners: Regulatory Challenges of New Business Models

This book evaluates existing and explores new mechanisms for the adequate payment of copyright owners for the use of their works. The underlying assumption is that adequate rewards to creators and subsequent right holders will continue to be a goal of copyright law (particularly to incentivize further creation and investment).
In the search for viable methods it first focuses on the reduction of transaction costs and the role of new technologies. It also discusses the further development an...