More Music in Movies: What Box Office Data Reveals About the Availability of Public Domain Songs in Movies from 1968-2008
More Music in Movies: What Box Office Data Reveals About the Availability of Public Domain Songs in Movies from 1968-2008
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电影中的更多音乐：票房数据揭示了 1968 年至 2008 年电影中公共领域歌曲的可用性
DOI：
10.2139/ssrn.2080184
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发表时间：
2012
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通讯作者：
Qingyao Zheng
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作者：
P. Heald;Peibei Shi;J. Stoiber;Qingyao Zheng
之前的一项经验研究表明，随着受版权保护的歌曲过渡到公共领域，它们在电影配乐中的使用频率与它们仍然受到法律保护时一样频繁。然而，这项研究没有考虑到在电影院观看每部电影的人数。由于关于延长版权期限的争论集中在作品落入公有领域后的持续“可获得性”，因此更好地衡量电影中歌曲的可获得性将解释出现歌曲的电影的相对票房成功。这项研究收集了1968-2008年间数百部电影的票房数据，其中出现了数百首歌曲，并得出结论，在公共领域歌曲落入公共领域之前和之后，同样多的人在电影院听到了这些歌曲。
A previous empirical study suggested that as copyrighted songs transitioned into the public domain they were used just as frequently in movie soundtracks as when they were still legally protected. That study, however, did not account for the number people who viewed each movie in the theater. Since the debate over copyright term extension centers on the continuing “availability” of works as they fall into the public domain, a better measure of the availability of songs in movies would account for the relative box office success of the movies in which the songs appear. The present study collects box office data for hundreds of movies from 1968-2008 in which appeared hundreds of songs and concludes that public domain songs were heard by just as many people in movie theaters before and after they fell into the public domain.