Batman forever? : the economics of overlapping rights /

When copyrighted comic characters are also protected under trademark laws, intellectual property (IP) rights can be overlapping. Arguably, registering a trademark can increase transaction costs for cross-media uses of characters, or it can help advertise across multiple sales channels. In an applica...

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Main Authors: Cuntz, Alexander (Author), Kaiser, Franziska (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Geneva, Switzerland : World Intellectual Property Organization, [2020]
Series:Economic research working paper series ; no. 61.
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