Copyright in the Digital Era: Building Evidence for Policy

Citation
National Research Council, Committee on the Impact of Copyright Policy on Innovation in the Digital Era, Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy; Policy and Global Affairs, Copyright in the Digital Era: Building Evidence for Policy (2013) (full-text).

Overview
This report examines a range of questions regarding copyright policy by using a variety of methods, such as case studies, international and sectoral comparisons, and experiments and surveys. This report is especially critical in light of digital age developments that may, for example, change the incentive calculus for various actors in the copyright system, impact the costs of voluntary copyright transactions, pose new enforcement challenges, and change the optimal balance between copyright protection and exceptions.