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 … incentives to bring forth a steady stream of valuable new products. This paper assesses the quality of new recorded music since …

. Notably, there is no evidence of comparable benefits for extensions in copyright lengths. Complementary analyses for other …

difficult to determine the socially optimal set of strategies and government copyright policies in the digital era …

Streaming music services have exploded in popularity in the past few years, variously raising optimism and concern … about their impacts on recorded music revenue. On the one hand, streaming services allow sellers to engage in bundling with … interest in music not generating revenue through individual track sales - unpaid consumption and deadweight loss - into …

"Changes in technologies for reproducing and redistributing digital goods (e.g., music, movies, software, books) have … sales of complementary non-digital products. We examine the negative impact of file-sharing on recorded music sales and …

. While bias is inherently difficult to measure, we identify a context within the music industry that is amenable to bias … against women. Using data on Spotify curators' rank of songs on New Music Friday playlists in 2017, we find that Spotify's New … Music Friday rankings favor independent-label music, along with some evidence of bias in favor of music by women. Despite …

This paper studies the role of consumer learning in the demand for recorded music by examining the impact of an artist …

There is a puzzle arising from empirical analyses of the impact of music piracy that this has caused declines in music … music. There have been numerous explanations posited and this paper adds a novel one: that artists are time inconsistent and …

legal environments and technological innovation. I examine firms' use of indirect price discrimination in response to U ….S. copyright law, which effectively prevents direct price discrimination. Using data covering VHS and DVD movie distribution, I … explain studios' optimal pricing strategies under U.S. copyright law, and determine optimal pricing strategies under E …