recorded music. Incumbent companies in these industries have severe difficulties in reacting to these changes and finding … effective business models. The fundamental challenge is how to capture value from delivering digital music files which users … business models where consumers are active partners helping to co-create value along with companies. Compared to the music …

This paper considers the market for digital music. We claim that the combination of the MP3 format and peer …-to-peer networks has made music non-excludable and this feature is essential for the understanding of the economics of the music market …, the music industry should concentrate on alternative ways of creating profit such as selling access to listeners, concerts …

We present a framework to evaluate the impact of digital music distribution. We set up a representative model that … enables the comparative static analysis. We then interpret two empirical observations about the music industry, the sales …

Die Studie untersucht, inwieweit die Potentiale der Musikwirtschaft in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in höhere Umsätze … verkauft. Die gesamte Nachfrage nach Gütern und Dienstleistungen der Musikwirtschaft wird in den nächsten Jahren wesentlich … an Freizeit sowie 4. die Vereinigung Deutschlands und den EG-Binnenmarkt. Insgesamt gesehen kann für die Musikwirtschaft …

In case of digital goods such like music, intellectual property rights are typically not exerted by the creators …

Since the launch of the iTunes Music Store in the US in 2003 and in much of Europe in the following years, music trade … substantial growth in availability, the available choice sets of digital music have not fully converged across countries. The … an obstacle to greater availability. However, other factors such as commercial strategies by music producers may also …