streaming – GEMA bashing followed. Music and copyright have always been a contentious issue. Digitization set in motion a … undermined previous business models of the music industry and shook basic assumptions in the understanding of copyright. Philip … interdisciplinary and historical perspectives on the fields of music business, copyright and capitalism in the digital transformation …

The software industry bemoans billions of Euros in damages due to copyright piracy. In connection with this, some … addition, many software manufacturers demand that the existing copyright should be tightened. This is in stark contrast to the … of their software as pirate copies. Hence, the reasons for copyright infringements are to be found in the behaviour of …

It is contentious to what extent the existing copyright system contributes to the positive development of the regulated … stable according to user assessments. Countries with stronger copyright protection do not exhibit greater supply of new works …. Accordingly, the relatively strict copyright protection in some countries does not seem to promote the supply of new creative …