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Piracy and Copyright Enforcement Mechanisms
Danaher, Brett - 2013
Much debate exists around the impact that illegal file sharing may have on the creative industries. Similarly, opinions differ regarding whether the producers of artistic works should be forced to accept any weakening of intellectual property rights resulting from illegal file sharing, or if...
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"Selling Out" and the Impact of Music Piracy on Artist Entry
Gans, Joshua S. - 2014
There is a puzzle arising from empirical analyses of the impact of music piracy that this has caused declines in music revenue without a consequential decline, and perhaps even an increase, in the entry of artists and the supply of high quality music. There have been numerous explanations...
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Copyright Enforcement : Evidence from Two Field Experiments
Luo, Hong - 2016
Effective dispute resolution is important for reducing private and social costs. We study how resolution responds to changes in price and communication using a new, extensive dataset of copyright infringement incidences by firms. The data cover two field experiments run by a large...
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The Nature and Incidence of Software Piracy : Evidence from Windows
Athey, Susan - 2013
be attributed to a small number of widely distributed "hacks" that are available through the Internet, (b) the incidence …
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The Digital Welfare of Nations : New Measures of Welfare Gains and Inequality
Brynjolfsson, Erik; Collis, Avinash; Liaqat, Asad; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Digital goods can generate large benefits for consumers, but these benefits are largely unmeasured in the national accounts, including GDP and productivity. In this paper, we measure welfare gains from 10 popular digital goods across 13 countries by conducting large-scale incentivized online...
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Digital Rights Management and the Pricing of Digital Products
Park, Yooki - 2005
As it becomes cheaper to copy and share digital content, vendors are turning to technical protections such as encryption. We argue that if protection is nevertheless imperfect, this transition will generally lower the prices of content relative to perfect legal enforcement. However, the effect...
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The Government as Litigant : Further Tests of the Case Selection Model
Eisenberg, Theodore - 1999
We develop a model of the plaintiff's decision to file a law suit that has implications for how differences between the federal government and private litigants and litigation translate into differences in trial rates and plaintiff win rates at trial. Our case selection model generates a set of...
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The Economic Theory of Public Enforcement of Law
Polinsky, A. Mitchell - 1999
This article surveys the theory of the public enforcement of law -- the use of public agents (inspectors, tax auditors …, police, prosecutors) to detect and to sanction violators of legal rules. We first present the basic elements of the theory … examine a variety of extensions of the central theory, concerning accidental harms, costs of imposing fines, errors, general …
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Economic Analysis of Law
Kaplow, Louis - 1999
This is a survey of the field of economic analysis of law, focusing on the work of economists. The survey covers the three central areas of civil law liability for accidents (tort law), property law, and contracts as well as the litigation process and public enforcement of law
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The Welfare Implications of Costly Litigation in the Theory of Liability
Polinsky, A. Mitchell - 1986
One of the principal results in the economic theory of liability is that, assuming litigation is costless, the rule of …
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