Nadia Soboleva moderates the session. Copyright is the currency and major building block of the creative and information industries and, like all currencies, stakeholders seek to know its value. Every day, parties to commercial transactions attempt to value, and negotiate the value, of the rights necessary to exploit content in any number of ways. Policy-makers and economists consider how the scope of copyright protection and users rights might best achieve the goals of copyright law, including to compensate rightsholders, incentivize creation and dissemination of works, and, in Canada, to promote culture, innovation, competition, and investment in the Canadian economy. Please join our panel of esteemed speakers for a discussion of the economics of copyright, including how value is determined in the market, the design of licensing and royalty structures in commercial transactions, and the role of economics as a driver of copyright policy.
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