Document Type
Response or Comment
Publication Date
10-13-2015
ISSN
2330-1295
Publisher
JOTWELL
Language
en-US
Abstract
In December 2011, the UK Intellectual Property Office commissioned the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Management at Bournemouth University to research the effects of parody on copyrighted works. Do parodies harm the market for the underlying work? How might we measure the economic effects of parody, as incentive depressors or engines?
UK copyright law does not contain an exception specifically covering parodies. The authors of the study perceive the UK copyright law as one of the most restrictive in seven jurisdictions surveyed (US, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Netherlands, UK) with regard to parodies. By commissioning this research, the UK appears to be considering reform. The study concludes that changes loosening the reign of copyright over parodies would further copyright’s underlying purposes of creation and dissemination.
Recommended Citation
Jessica Silbey,
Parody and Fair Markets
,
in
JOTWELL
(2015).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/1381
Included in
Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law Commons, Intellectual Property Law Commons, Law and Economics Commons
