The Economics of Copyright, Parallel Imports and Piracy in the Music Recording Industry.

The economics of copyright, parallel imports and piracy in the music recording Declaration of Authenticity I hereby certify that, unless otherwise stated, the work presented in my own and has not been submitted previously, in whole or in part, for any other academic award. eo Papadopoulos Australia has been at the forefront of trade-related copyright reform having, after almost a decade of debate and controversy, amended the import provisions of the Copyright Act 1968 to allow parallel imports of sound recordings. The related issues of the exhaustion of copyright, parallel imports and international piracy, is a complex area of international law and economics, and highlights the interplay between competition policy, intellectual property law and trade policy. We begin with an investigation of the economics of the music recordin