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On the construction of property rights in aesthetic ideas

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The paper attempts to formulate concrete proposals for a change in laws of intellectual property, based on a communication-oriented theoretical analysis of the issue. The particular role of collection societies is investigated. The proposals arrived at suggest a strengthening of non-negotiable, non-hereditary authors' rights, and a “refinancing fee” collected for copies of works of art with classical status and distributed to members of currently active art circles.

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  1. Department of Economics, Witten/Herdecke University, Alfred-Herrhausen-Str. 50, 58448, Witten, Germany

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Hutter, M. On the construction of property rights in aesthetic ideas. J Cult Econ 19, 177–185 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01074204

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