1st Edition

The Law and Economics of Intellectual Property in the Digital Age The Limits of Analysis

By Niva Elkin-Koren, Eli Salzberger Copyright 2013
318 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the economic analysis of intellectual property law, with a special emphasis on the Law and Economics of informational goods in light of the past decade’s technological revolution. In recent years there has been massive growth in the Law and Economics literature focusing on intellectual property, on both normative and positive levels of analysis. The economic approach to... Read more

Part 1: Intellectual Property, Law and Economics  Introduction  1. Introduction to Law and Economics  2. The Rise of Intellectual Property  Part 2: Normative Analysis  3. The Incentives Paradigm  4. The Proprietary Model of Intellectual Property  Part 3: Central Intervention and Private Ordering  5. Intellectual Property and the Rise of Private Ordering  6. Intellectual Property in the Digital Era: Economic Analysis and Governance by Technology  Part 4: Positive Analysis  7. A positive Analysis of Intellectual Property Law

Biography

Professor Eli M Salzberger was the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa and the President of the European Association of Law and Economics. His research and teaching areas are legal theory, economic analysis of law, legal ethics, and the Israeli Supreme Court.

Niva Elkin-Koren is the Dean of the University of Haifa Faculty of Law and the founding director of the Haifa Center for Law & Technology. Her research focuses on the legal institutions that facilitate private and public control over the production and dissemination of information. Their first co-authored book Law, Economic and Cyberspace was published by Edward Elgar in 2004.