undercompensate

In crassly economic terms it would be as inefficient to overcompensate artists and authors for the right of reproduction as it would be self-defeating to undercompensate them.

Studies have found branching after AMD to undercompensate, fully compensate and overcompensate for the damage received (Marquis 1996, Haukioja and Koricheva 2000,Wise and Abrahamson 2008).

To the Editor: Re "Malpractice Mythology" (editorial, Jan. 9): Fair-minded doctors realize that many victims of medical negligence are never compensated and that $250,000 may undercompensate those who suffer severe injuries.

Cantor's report, which represents the most serious challenge yet to the basic rules underlying the fund, stated that the Victim Compensation Fund improperly created rules that threatened to undercompensate Cantor families by hundreds of millions of dollars, particularly families at the highest end of the income scale.

Wal-Mart's request for review, however, calls the judge's order "flatly contrary" to Supreme Court rulings, argues that it shoehorns existing law to permit the certification of the class and adds that it would actually undercompensate some women "whose rights to sue individually would be eliminated by the judgment."

31 The proper balance among these and other public policy objectives lies not only in recognizing the creator’s rights but in giving due weight to their limited nature. In crassly economic terms it would be as inefficient to overcompensate artists and authors for the right of reproduction as it would be self-defeating to undercompensate them.