Day October 24, 2022

AELK and EIFL submit comments on Kosovo’s Draft Law on Copyrights and Related Rights (2022)

[Electronic Information for Libraries] EIFL and our partner, the Association of Electronic Libraries in Kosova (AELK) participated in a public consultation organized by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports of the Republic of Kosovo on the new draft copyright law. EIFL and AELK submitted comments on the new draft law. Our comments concerned three areas: compliance with the Marrakesh Treaty for persons with print disabilities, exceptions for libraries, and the three-step test (that sets conditions for the use of an exception).

Innovation and Social Welfare: A New Research Agenda

[Fulvio Castellacci] Abstract: Innovation research is motivated by the understanding that new technologies contribute to address societal challenges and foster welfare. Extant research in the economics of innovation has, however, adopted a narrow definition of social welfare, which focuses on economic performance and material well-being, and that mostly disregards distributional impacts of innovation. This paper critically reviews the concept of social welfare in the economics of innovation literature, and it outlines a new research agenda that will investigate the impacts of innovation on individuals’ well-being and aggregate social welfare.