Research report 2017 - Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

Why does creativity need the law?

Authors
Engel, Christoph
Departments
Verhaltensrecht und Ökonomie
Summary
Why does creativity need the law? US law believes: because authors would otherwise be starving. Continental law counters: because authors care about recognition. Consequently Continental law not only empowers authors to sell their works. It also protects moral rights, like the right to be named. In a field experiment, only a minority of photographers are willing to give up moral rights.

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