ABSTRACT
This book aims to investigate the impacts of creative destruction on the copyright or creative industries and related broad issues. Principally, the book is designed to examine the extent to which the forces of creative destruction can affect the relation between copyright expansion – the legal extension of copyright duration as an enduring means of copyright protection – and the growth of the UK book publishing industry as a typical copyright industry and as the cradle of modern copyright law. To explore the context of the purpose, this introductory chapter states the legal and policy issues concerning copyright expansion, addresses the main subject (research purpose and research question), defi nes the main terms, demonstrates the corresponding contributions, and presents the outline of the book.
