Are Musical Compositions Subject to Compulsory Licensing for Ringtones?

Compulsory Licensing and Access to Medicine in Developing Countries

Sketching Musical Compositions

Sketches form an integral part of activities ranging from games through explanatory dialogues to doodles. They are also known to be important in the creative stages of design. This paper explores the role of sketching in musical composition. We discuss the historical correlation between changes in graphical notations for music and compositional practice. Contemporary music technologies provide ...

Compulsory Patent and Trademark Licensing: A Framework for Analysis

Finding flaws: the limitations of compulsory licensing for improving access to medicines--an international comparison.

Compulsory licensing of technology and the essential facilities doctrine

We look at compulsory licensing of intellectual property as remedy for anti-competitive practice. We identify aspects of intellectual property that warrants a different remedy from those using general definitions and remedies for essential facility. Based on the analysis, we present a characterisation of optimal compulsory licensing for a simple market. ∗Department of Economics, University of A...