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Waldfogel, Joel; Rob, Rafael - 2021

New information technology has reduced marginal production and distribution costs of information goods to negligible levels and promises to revolutionize many industries. Unpaid copies of digital products can be as good as paid first-generation copies, and their availability can undermine the...

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The Use of Full-Line Forcing Contracts in the Video Rental Industry

Ho, Justin - 2010

dataset on contracts between video retailers and movie distributors to analyze the choices made on both sides of the market …

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Dynamics of Consumer Demand for New Durable Goods

Gowrisankaran, Gautam - 2009

Most new consumer durable goods experience rapid prices declines and quality improvements, suggesting the importance of modeling dynamics. This paper specifies a dynamic model of consumer preferences for new durable goods with persistently heterogeneous consumer tastes, rational expectations,...

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Learning Millennial-Style

Carlin, Bruce I. - 2014

The growing use of on-line educational content and related video services has changed the way people access education …, share knowledge, and possibly make life decisions. In this paper, we characterize how video content affects individual …

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The Choice between Formal and Informal Intellectual Property : A Literature Review

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2014

We survey the economic literature, both theoretical and empirical, on the choice of intellectual property protection by firms. Our focus is on the tradeoffs between using patents and disclosing versus the use of secrecy, although we also look briefly at the use of other means of formal...

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Waldfogel, Joel - 2014

Recent technological changes may have altered the balance between technology and copyright law for digital products … market. As a result, we don't know whether the effective copyright protection currently available provides adequate …, researchers and policymakers thinking about the strength of copyright protection should supplement their attention to producer …

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Dead Poet's Property - How Does Copyright Influence Price?

Li, Xing - 2015

This article exploits a differential increase in copyright under the UK Copyright Act of 1814 - in favor of books by … in copyright length. By comparison, placebo regressions for books by dead authors that did not benefit from the extension …

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Lost in the Clouds : The Impact of Changing Property Rights on Investment in Cloud Computing Ventures

Lerner, Josh - 2015

Our analysis seeks to understand the impact of changing allocations of property rights on investment in new firms. We focus on the Cartoon Network, et al. v. Cablevision decision in the U.S., which narrowed the protection enjoyed by content creators (e.g., movie studios) and gave greater rights...

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Effects of Copyrights on Science - Evidence from the Us Book Republication Program

Biasi, Barbara - 2018

. Yet economic analyses continue to be rare, partly due to a lack of experimental variation in modern copyright laws. This … paper exploits a change in copyright laws as a result of World War II to examine the effects of copyrights on science. In …

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Does Copyright Piracy Pay? The Effects of U.S. International Copyright Laws on the Market for Books, 1790-1920

Khan, B. Zorina - 2021

Does the lack of international copyrights benefit or harm developing countries? I examine the effects of U.S. copyright … changed to allow foreigners to obtain copyright protection in the United States if certain conditions were met. Thus, this … episode in American history provides us with a convenient way of investigating the consequences of international copyright …

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