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How the Internet Changed the Market for Print Media
Bhuller, Manudeep; Havnes, Tarjei; McCauley, Jeremy; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Combining comprehensive data from the Norwegian media market on newspaper circulation, readership, revenues, factor inputs, and product characteristics with plausibly exogenous variation in the availability and adoption of broadband internet, this paper provides causal evidence on how the...
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Content Moderation with Opaque Policies
Kominers, Scott Duke; Shapiro, Jesse M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
A sender sends a signal about a state to a receiver who takes an action that determines a payoff. A moderator can block some or all of the sender's signal before it reaches the receiver. When the moderator's policy is transparent to the receiver, the moderator can improve the payoff by blocking...
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The First Sale Doctrine and the Digital Challenge to Public Libraries
Reimers, Imke C.; Waldfogel, Joel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Libraries have traditionally provided free communal access to books, facilitated by the first sale doctrine's (FSD) guarantee that libraries may purchase physical books at consumer prices. Increasingly restrictive ebook access terms may imperil libraries, and we compare the welfare cost of...
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Copyright Policy Options for Generative Artificial Intelligence
Gans, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
new challenges for copyright policy as such models may be trained on data that includes copy-protected content. This paper … examines this issue from an economics perspective and analyses how different copyright regimes for generative AI will impact … small AI models, it is found that giving original content providers copyright protection leads to superior social welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486198
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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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Streaming Reaches Flood Stage : Does Spotify Stimulate or Depress Music Sales?
Aguiar, Luis - 2015
also shows that Spotify displaces music piracy. Given the current industry's revenue from track sales ($0.82 per sale) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457016
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GDPR and the Lost Generation of Innovative Apps
Janßen, Rebecca; Kesler, Reinhold; Kummer, Michael E.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using data on 4.1 million apps at the Google Play Store from 2016 to 2019, we document that GDPR induced the exit of about a third of available apps; and in the quarters following implementation, entry of new apps fell by half. We estimate a structural model of demand and entry in the app...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210056
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What is Newsworthy? Theory and Evidence
Armona, Luis; Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron; Kamenica, Emir; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study newsworthiness in theory and practice. We focus on situations in which a news outlet observes the realization of a state of the world and must decide whether to report the realization to a consumer who pays an opportunity cost to consume the report. The consumer-optimal reporting...
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The Welfare Effect of Gender-Inclusive Intellectual Property Creation : Evidence from Books
Waldfogel, Joel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Women have traditionally participated in intellectual property creation at depressed rates relative to men. Book authorship is now an exception. In 1970, women published a third as many books as men. By 2020, women produced the majority of books. Adding new products can have significant welfare...
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Officer-Involved : The Media Language of Police Killings
Moreno, Jonathan; Ouss, Aurélie; Bayer, Patrick J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper studies the language used in television news broadcasts to describe police killings in the United States from 2013-19. We begin by documenting that the media is significantly more likely to use several language structures - e.g., passive voice, nominalization, intransitive verbs -...
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