Assessing the Economic Impacts of Copyright Reform on Performers and Producers of Sound Recordings in Canada
Dr. Ruth Towse
Report commissioned by Industry Canada
Final Report*
Dr Ruth Towse**
Associate Professor in Cultural Industries
Dept for the Study of the Arts and Culture
Erasmus University Rotterdam
The Netherlands
* I am grateful to Michael Rushton and Christopher Maule for reading the draft version of this Report and to Keith Acheson for his very detailed comments. All errors and opinions are mine.
** Ruth Towse is Associate Professor in Cultural Industries at the Department for the Study of the Arts and Culture at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She is an economist specialising in cultural economics and the economics of copyright, especially performers’ rights. She edited the Journal of Cultural Economics from 1993-2002. She is currently a member of the WIPO Expert Panel preparing a Handbook on Measuring the Economic Contribution of the Copyright Industries. She is Vice President of the Society for Economic Research in Copyright Issues (SERCI). She is also the national representative for the Netherlands on the European Union COST A20 Project ‘The Effect of the Internet on the Mass Media in Europe’. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts in the UK.
Ruth Towse has authored and edited a number of books and articles in academic journals: her latest books are Creativity, Incentive and Reward: an Economic Analysis of Copyright and Culture in the Information Age, published in 2001 by Edward Elgar Publishing and Copyright in the Cultural Industries in 2002, also with Edward Elgar Publishing.