The creative industries were the first to feel the heat from digital services. Long before taxi drivers worried about ride-sharing apps, technological change upended the music business. Digital services liberated the distribution of art from editors and dramatically reduced the cost and skills needed to become an author. The empirical work of Joel Waldfogel shows that digitization brought us a digital renaissance. It probably spurred more creativity of high quality than any legislative copyright extension of recent years …
Martin Husovec, The DSA as a creator’s charter?, Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, volume 18, issue 2, February 2023, pages 71–73. Published: 21 January 2023.
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