The economics of intellectual property / edited by Ruth Towse and Rudi Holzhauer.

VOLUMEN 1 -- Acknowledgements, viii -- Introduction / Ruth Towse and Rudi Holzhauer, ix -- Part I. Introduction to the economics of intellectual property -- 1. Intellectual property / Stanley M. Besen, 3 -- 2. Economic incentives in markets for information and innovation / Ejan Mackaay, 8 -- 3. Intellectual property: a non-posnerian law and economics approach / Tom G. Palmer, 51 -- 4. Of property rules, coase, and intellectual property / Robert P. Merges, 95 -- 5. The welfare implications of unauthorized reproduction of intellectual property in the presence of demand network externalities / Lisa N. Takeyama, 114 -- Part II. Copyright -- 6. The economics of copyright: an historical perspective / Gillian K. Hadfield, 129 -- 7. Copyright / Leo J. Raskind, 175 -- 8. Copyright / Wendy J. Gordon, Robert G. Bone, 181 -- 9. The economic aspects of copyright in books / Arnold Plant, 208 -- 10. The effects of increased copyright protection: an analytic approach / Ian E. Novos, Michael Waldman, 237 -- 11. The economics of copying / William R. Johnson, 248 -- 12. An economic analysis of copyright law / William M. Landes and Richard A. Posner, 265 -- 13. The uneasy case for copyright: a study of copyright in books, photocopies, and computer programs / Stephen Breyer, 304 -- Part III. Applications to specific areas of copyright -- 14. Fair use as market failure: a structural and economic analysis of the Betamax case and its predecessors / Wendy J. Gordon, 377 -- 15. An Economic Understanding of Copyright Law's Work-Made-for-Hire Doctrine / I.T. Hardy, 435 -- 16. Copying and indirect appropriability: photocopying of journals / S.J. Liebowitz, 482 -- 17. Copyright liability for cable television: compulsory licensing and the Coase theorem / Stanley M. Besen and Willard G. Manning, Jr. and Bridger M. Mitchell, 495 -- Part IV. Administration of copyright -- 18. Implementing performing rights / Hector L. MacQueen and Alan Peacock, 527 -- 19. Copyright and economic incentives: an application to performers' rights in the music industry / Ruth Towse, 546 -- Part V. Droit de suite -- 20. Droit de Suite / Jeffrey M. Perloff, 569 -- 21. An economic analysis of the droit de suite / John L. Solow, 573 -- 22. Authors and artists moral rights: a comparative legal and economic analysis / Henry Hansmann and Marina Santilli, 591 -- Name index, 641.

VOLUMEN 2 -- Acknowledgements, vii -- An introduction by the editors to all four volumes appears in Volume I -- Part I. The nature of patents and the patent system 1. Patents / Edmund W. Kitch, 3 -- 2. The patent controversy in the nineteenth century / Fritz Machlup and Edith Penrose, 8 -- 3. The economic theory concerning patents for inventions / Arnold Plant, 37 -- 4. The nature and function of the patent system / Edmund W. Kitch, 59 -- 5. Patents: monopolies or property rights? / Edmund W. Kitch, 85 -- 6. The economic underpinnings of patent law / Kenneth W. Dam, 104 -- 7. An economic review of the patent system / Fritz Machlup, 129 -- 8. The incentives to innovate under alternative property rights assignments with special reference to the patent system / Erich Kaufer, 215 -- 9. Patents as an incentive system / Suzanne Scotchmer, 281 -- 10. Optimal timing of innovations / Yoram Barzel, 248 -- 11. The timing of innovation: research, development, and diffusion / Jennifer F. Reinganum, 256 -- 12. The economic effects of compulsory patent licensing, New York / E.M. Scherer, 315 -- 13. Optimal patents with compulsory licensing / Pankaj Tandon, 401 -- 14. How to count patents and value intellectual property: the uses of patent renewal and application data / Jean O. Lanjouw, Ariel Pakes and Jonathan Putnam, 418 -- Part II. Patent scope and duration -- 15. The scope and duration of the patent right and the nature of research rivalry / D.G. McFetridge and M. Rafiquzzaman, 449 -- 16. Comment: does competitive dissipation require a short patent life? / Roger L. Beck, 479 -- 17. The optimal patent term under uncertainty / M. Rafiquzzaman, 488 -- 18. Optimal patent length and breadth / Richard Gilbert and Carl Shapiro, 502 -- 19. On the complex economics of patent scope / Robert P. Merges and Richard R. Nelson, 509 -- 20. How broad should the scope of patent protection be? / Paul Klemperer, 587 -- 21. The importance of patent scope: an empirical analysis / Joshua Lerner, 605 -- 22. Technology adoption, learning spillovers, and the optimal duration of patent-based monopolies / Paul A. David and Trond E. Olsen, 620 -- Name index, 647.

VOLUMEN 3 -- Acknowledgements, vii -- An Introduction by the editors to all four volumes appears in Volume I -- Part I. Empirical evidence on patents -- 1. Imitation costs and patents: an empirical study / Edwin Mansfield, Mark Schwartz and Samuel Wagner, 3 -- 2. R&D and innovation: some empirical findings / Edwin Mansfield, 15 -- 3. Patents and innovation: an empirical study / Edwin Mansfield, 43 -- 4. A new look at the patent system / Richard C. Levin, 52 -- 5. The influence of the patent system on the readiness of industry to invest - an empirical analysis / K.H. Oppenländer, 56 -- 6. Technological opportunity and spillovers ofr & d: evidence from firms patents, profits and market value / Adam B. Jaffe, 70 -- 7. An empirical study of the twenty-year patent term / Mark A. Lemley, 88 -- 8. Do stronger patents induce more innovation? evidence from the 1988 Japanese patent law reforms / Mariko Sakakibara and Lee Branstetter, 144 -- Part II. Trade secrets -- 9. Trade secret / David D. Friedman, 171 -- 10. The law and economics of rights in valuable information / Edmund W. Kitch, 175 -- 11. Property Rights in Trade Secrets / Steven N.S. Cheung, 216 -- 12. Some Economics of Trade Secret Law / David D. Friedman, William M. Landes and Richard A Posner, 230 -- 13. Intellectual property institutions and the panda's thumb: patents, copyrights, and trade secrets in economic theory and history / Paul A. David, 242 -- Part III. Trademarks -- 14. Trademarks / Nicholas Economides, 287 -- 15. The economic effect of trademarks / A.G. Papandreou, 290 -- 16. The economics of trademarks / Nicholas S. Economides, 298 -- 17. The economics of trademark law / William M. Landes and Richard A. Posner, 315 -- 18. Why are some products branded and others not? / I.P.L. Png and David Reitman, 355 -- 19. The trouble with trademark / Stephen L. Carter, 373 -- 20. Jenever and Jumping wild cats: the scope of trade mark protection in economics and in law / Rudi W. Holzhauer, 415 -- 21. Trademarks, market power, and information / Robert Feinberg, 432 -- 22. Persuasion or information? Promotion and the shares of brand name and generic pharmaceuticals / Mark A. Hurwitz and Richard E. Caves, 439 -- 23. Trademark rights at a discount is trademark law still effective? / Jochen Pagenberg, 461 -- Name index, 469.

VOLUMEN 4 -- Acknowledgements, vii -- An Introduction by the editors to all four volumes appears in Volume I -- Part I. Competition issues-general -- 1. The social costs of monopoly and regulation / Richard A. Posner, 3 -- 2. Intellectual property rights and competition policy: a framework for the analysis of economic and legal issues / Nancy T. Gallini and Michael J. Trebilcock, 24 -- 3. Private property and the public domain: the case of antitrust / Richard A. Epstein, 69 -- 4. EEC competition policy-legal form or economic efficiency? / Valentine Korah, 104 -- 5. Cooperative agreements in R&D and European antitrust policy / Alexis Jacquemin, 129 -- 6. Inter-firm co-operation, competition law, and patent licensing: A US-EC comparison / Alan Gutterman, 139 -- 7. The law and economics of tying arrangements: lessons for the competition policy treatment of intellectual property / William F. Baxter and Daniel P. Kessler, 161 -- 8. Intellectual property and the essential facilities doctrine / Thomas F. Cotter, 177 -- Part II. Parallel imports -- 9. Intellectual property rights and parallel imports / J.S. Chard and C.J. Mellor, 219 -- 10. Trademark law, economics and greymarket policy / Lars H. Liebeler, 234 -- 11. The Gray Market case: trademark rights v. consumer interests / John A. Young, Jr., 259 -- 12. Free trading or free-riding: an examination of the theories and available empirical evidence on Gray Market imports / John C. Hilke, 288 -- 13. First report (Final) to the Committee on International Trade Law of the International Law Association on the Subject of Parallel Importation / Frederick M. Abbott, 305 -- 14. Executive summary / John Rhys, Theon van Dijk, Peter Goate, David Lewis, Franz Gerner, Simon Holmes, David Rose, Tom Usher and David Spilsbury, 335 -- 15. The economics of Parallel Trade / Patricia M. Danzon, 359 -- 16. The conflicts between parallel trade and product access and innovation: the case of pharmaceuticals / Harvey E. Bale, Jr., 371 -- Part III. WTO/Trips -- 17. You can't always get what you want: lessons from the Paris convention revision exercise / Michael McKee, 391 -- 18. The economics of intellectual property rights and the GATT: a view from the south -- / Carlos Alberto Primo Braga, 399 -- 19. The interface between competition policy and intellectual property in the context of the international trading system / Robert D. Anderson, 421 -- 20. From free riders to fair followers: global competition under the TRIPS agreement / J.H. Reichman, 445 -- Part IV. Standardisation issues -- 21. Technical change, barriers to entry, and market structure / Richard C. Levin, 531 -- 22. Standardization and intellectual property / Joseph Farrell, 546 -- Name index, 563.