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

1 Faculty News June 29, 2018 ![China Daily logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030721.jpg?itok=tg2Q-bhu)>

Excerpt from [China Daily](http://africa.chinadaily.com.cn/weekly/2018-06/29/content_36478210.htm) -- "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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