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Latest revision as of 15:49, 29 January 2018
Contents
Source Details
Heald (2017a) | |
Title: | Copyright Reversion to Authors (and the Rosetta Effect): An Empirical Study of Reappearing Books |
Author(s): | Heald, P. J. |
Year: | 2017 |
Citation: | Heald, Paul J., Copyright Reversion to Authors (and the Rosetta Effect): An Empirical Study of Reappearing Books (December 8, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3084920 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3084920 |
Link(s): | Open Access,Open Access |
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Discipline: | |
Linked by: | Heald (2020a), Yuvaraj et al. (2021) |
About the Data | |
Data Description: | Heald sorted the Data collected into three Datasets:
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Data Type: | Primary data |
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Data Analysis Methods: | |
Industry(ies): | |
Country(ies): | |
Cross Country Study?: | No |
Comparative Study?: | No |
Literature review?: | No |
Government or policy study?: | No |
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Abstract
Copyright keeps out-of-print books unavailable to the public, and commentators speculate that statutes transferring rights back to authors would provide incentives for the republication of books from unexploited back catalogs. This study compares the availability of books whose copyrights are eligible for statutory reversion under US law with books whose copyrights are still exercised by the original publisher. It finds that 17 USC § 203, which permits reversion to authors in year 35 after publication, and 17 USC § 304, which permits reversion 56 years after publication, significantly increase in-print status for important classes of books. Several reasons are offered as to why the § 203 effect seems stronger. The 2002 decision in Random House v. Rosetta Books, which worked a one-time de facto reversion of ebook rights to authors, has an even greater effect on inprint status than the statutory schemes.
Main Results of the Study
- Long Copyright durations lead to the disappearance of large numbers of book titles from the general availability.
- The court decision Random House, Inc. V. Rosetta Books LLC. (2001), lead the vast licensing of eBook publication rights of books that have already been published as printed versions and thus to a republication of elder literary works as pure ‘eBook versions’, by smaller, independent publishers (Rosetta Effect).
- The lack of availability caused by long terms of copyright protection cannot be solved by decreasing the length of protection because of nearly universal membership in the Berne Convention.
- Reversion rights might contribute to a solution against the disappearance of books and is possible under the Berne Convention.
Policy Implications as Stated By Author
- The law figure of a reversion right can be part of a solution against the problem of dissapearing books.
- Further research is necessary to determine the ideal timing for rights reversion.
Coverage of Study
Datasets
Sample size: | 800 |
Level of aggregation: | Books |
Period of material under study: | Publications of NYT bestselling authors who died between 1973-1999 |
Sample size: | 689 |
Level of aggregation: | Books |
Period of material under study: | 1956-59 and from 1963-66, 1974-81 and 1983-86 |
Sample size: | 464 |
Level of aggregation: | Books |
Period of material under study: | Reviewed by the New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) from 1978-84 |