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Professor Petra Moser's joint research on the impact of copyright laws on creativity is spotlighted

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Excerpt from China Daily -- "Professor Michela Giorcelli from the University of California, Los Angeles, and Professor Petra Moser from New York University - both in the United States - have studied the effects of copyrights on the output of new operas in Italy around the year 1800. They have found that the introduction of a basic level of copyright protection for the creation of operas, where it had previously been absent, increased both quality and quantity of opera output."

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