"Does Copyright Affect Creative Reuse? Evidence from the Digitization of Baseball Digest", Nagaraj 2013 (draft) http://web.mit.edu/nagaraj/files/copyright_nagaraj.pdf
> While copyright governs the distribution of creative content in industries > like publishing and computer software, its impact on creative reuse has > largely evaded empirical analysis. I use the digitization of both copyrighted > and non-copyrighted issues of one publication, Baseball Digest, to measure > the impact of copyright on a prominent venue for reuse: Wikipedia. While the > overall impact of digitization on reuse is positive, copyright hurts both the > extent of reuse and the level of internet traffic to affected Wikipedia > pages. The impact of copyright is more pronounced for images compared to text > and becomes economically significant only post-digitization. http://abhishek.mit.edu/ You may remember discussion of the work way back in July 2012: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/mit-economist-heres-how-copyright-laws-impoverish-wikipedia/259970/ The actual paper was only posted recently. -- gwern http://www.gwern.net _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
