The use of file-sharing technologies, so-called Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks, to copy music files has become common …

Several empirical studies exist that measure the impact of filesharing services on music sales, and most suggest that … substituted out of music and into movies. This paper uses micro-level data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey (1998 through 2003 …) to test for this possible substitution effect. The data do not support the hypothesis that music consumers spent less on …

A study claiming that file sharing has not reduced new music creation is evaluated. The defects in the analysis are …

This paper quantifies the relationship between private-network file sharing activity and music sales in the BitTorrent …

The use of file-sharing technologies, so-called Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks, to copy music files has become common …

Using data from an exclusive file-sharing website that allows users to share music files using the BitTorrent protocol … that file sharing is harmful to the music industry (the fallacy of composition). Essentially, increased file sharing of an … artist's work allows that artist to gain a larger slice of the shrinking pie that is music-industry revenues. This novel …

In a recent and unpublished study — Empirical Copyright: A Case Study of File Sharing and Music Output — Tulane … University Law Professor Glynn Lunney, Jr., concludes that “file sharing has not reduced the creation of new original music.” The … claim is based on the correlation of music sales over time to the appearance of “new artists”, narrowly defined, appearing …

sharing and the parallel fall in music industry revenue as a natural experiment in radically reduced copyright protection … analysis, I show that the sharp decline in music industry revenue that paralleled the rise of file sharing was associated … file sharing began was associated with a net increase in the number of new hit songs, ceteris paribus. Thus, for the music …

violations of authors’ and related rights. The revenues of the recorded music have shrunk to approximately 40% since their … lack any ‘complementary sources of income’, such as the live performances in the music sector. The present text starts with …