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Music Labels and Digital Competitors Tracing the Great Rollercoaster of the Last 20 Years Open
This paper examines the tense relationships between the large music labels and the emerging digital companies.Looking back at the anti-digitization feelings in the music industry of the last twenty years, it proposes a radically different …
The true impact of shorter and longer copyright durations: from authors’ earnings to cultural creativity and diversity Open
In the mainstream, there has been a strong advocacy to prolong copyright duration. This makes it an important task to rigorously examine if a longer copyright duration is helpful in guaranteeing the earnings of authors from their works as …
When protectionism does not protect you anymore! How to enhance the European film industry Open
In recent years, the role of cultural industries has been of increasing interest for governments around the world. This has been particularly the case with the audio-visual industries, such as the ...
Overcoming the Incoherent ‘Grand Maneuver’ in the French Film and TV Markets: Lessons from the Experiences in France and Korea Open
In 1989, the Member States of the European Union integrated their TV markets together in order to create a larger and more open ‘single TV market’ through the Television without Frontiers Directive. The French film industry used this oppor…
Cultural Industries in the Era of Protectionism Open
The approaches taken in these articles for this Special Issue are interdisciplinary and seek to be innovative by offering public and private solutions to globalization and protectionism in the cultural industries. We believe that it will b…
Building Consistent Policies on Subsidies in the Film Industry: Institutions and Instruments in France and Korea Open
This paper explores a much-neglected aspect of cultural policies: the role of the institutions in charge and the way they use the instruments at their disposal. It focuses on the film industry which offers the remarkable contrast on how th…
INTRODUCTION: Kritika Kultura Special Issue on Cultural Practices and Policies in the Digital and Global Age Open
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Trade and Trade Policy Issues in the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals and the Sustainable Development Goals Open
This paper presents an overview of the trade and policy issues in the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It assesses the dramatic changes in the political, economic, and busine…
The Secret to the Success of K-Pop Open
Today's mantra in many political and business circles is that stringent copyrights are needed for fostering cultural creativity and that piracy is the greatest obstacle toward creativity. If that were true, the success of Korean pop music …
The EU Preferential Trade Agreements: Defining Priorities for a Debt-Ridden, Growth-Starving EU Open
The EU severe debt problem requires urgently the design and implementation of domestic pro-growth reform agendas in Europe. Opening markets to foreign competitors has always been a way to boost and buttress such agendas. A “Sleeping Doha ”…