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Piracy of digital products : a critical review of the economics literature

Peitz, Martin; Waelbroeck, Patrick - 2003

Digital products have the property that they can be copied almost costlessly. This makes them candidates for non-commercial copying by final consumers. Because the copy of a copy typically does not deteriorate in quality, copying products can become a wide-spread phenomenon this can be...

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The economics of copyright in the digital age

Peukert, Christian; Windisch, Margaritha - 2023

. Copyright law, in particular, has developed constantly to keep up with emerging technologies and the interests of creators … economics of copyright in the digital age, with a particular focus on the available empirical evidence. First, we discuss the … legal foundations of the copyright system and developments of length and scope throughout the era of digitization. Second …

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Strategic behavior and AI training data

Peukert, Christian; Abeillon, Florian; Haese, Jérémie; … - 2024

the technological frontier. We discuss implications for copyright and AI policy. …

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Digital piracy : theory

Belleflamme, Paul; Peitz, Martin - 2010

are considered. Finally, a quick look at emerging new business models is taken. -- information good ; piracy ; copyright …This article reviews recent theoretical contributions on digital piracy. It starts by elaborating on the reasons for … intellectual property protection, by reporting a few facts about copyright protection, and by examining reasons to become a digital …

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International protection of intellectual property

Grossman, Gene M.; Lai, Edwin L.-C. - 2002

We study the incentives that governments have to protect intellectual property in a trading world economy. We consider a world economy with ongoing innovation in two countries that differ in market size and in their capacities for innovation. We associate the strength of IPR protection with the...

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Internet and voting in the Web 2.0 era : evidence from a local broadband policy

Poy, Samuele; Schüller, Simone - 2016

This article analyzes the impact of a local broadband expansion policy on electoral turnout and party vote share. We exploit a unique policy intervention involving staged broadband infrastructure installation across rural municipalities in the Province of Trento (Italy), thus generating a source...

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The impact of online competition on local newspapers : evidence from the introduction of craigslist

Djourelova, Milena; Durante, Ruben; Martin, Gregory J. - 2021

How does competition from online platforms affect the organization, performance, and editorial choices of newspapers? And what are the implications of these changes for the information vot-ers are exposed to and for political accountability? We study these questions using the staggered...

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Social media and mental health

Braghieri, Luca; Levy, Ro’ee; Makarin, Alexey - 2022

The diffusion of social media coincided with a worsening of mental health conditions among adolescents and young adults in the United States, giving rise to speculation that social media might be detrimental to mental health. In this paper, we provide quasi-experimental estimates of the impact...

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Lost in the net? : broadband internet and youth mental health

Donati, Dante; Durante, Ruben; Sobbrio, Francesco; … - 2022

How does the internet affect young people’s mental health? We study this question in the context of Italy using administrative data on the universe of cases of mental disorders diagnosed in Italian hospitals between 2001 and 2013, which we combine with information on the availability of...

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Selective sharing of news items and the political position of news outlets

Freitag, Julian; Kerkhof, Anna; Münster, Johannes - 2021

We present a new measure for the political position of news outlets based on politicians' selective sharing of news items. Politicians predominantly share news items that are in line with their political position, hence, one can infer the political position of news outlets from the politicians'...

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