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This paper provides new evidence on the contractual governance of technology licensing agreements. Based upon an … international sample of licensing contracts, we explore how the contractual design deals with specific contractual hazards. In … considerations on licensing design. Empirical results highlight that contractual clauses of governance are crafted independently of …
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technology, and the importance of creative re-use and new licensing and business models. We then set out avenues for further … technology that enables algorithmic licensing, and copyright issues related to software, data and artificial intelligence. …
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existing examples of collaborative licensing models. Those models are examined from a theoretical perspective and tested in a …
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licensing negotiations are the attempts to license digital music services over the past decade. In this Article we present the … first qualitative and quantitative data about the licensing process for on-demand music streaming services, gleaned from … complex background rules for these private licensing negotiations. Copyright shapes, constrains, and also presents …
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This article reviews recent theoretical contributions on digital piracy. It starts by elaborating on the reasons for intellectual property protection, by reporting a few facts about copyright protection, and by examining reasons to become a digital pirate. Next, it provides an exploration of the...
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In the context of the WTO, intellectual property rights (IPR) are codified in the TRIPS-agreement. While covering all the different types of IPR, landmark cases of the still young history of TRIPS have dealt with commercial copyrights. This paper summarizes the basic economics of the IPR branch...
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This paper quantifies the relationship between private-network file sharing activity and music sales in the BitTorrent era. Using a panel dataset of 2,251 albums' U.S. sales and file sharing downloads on a private network during 2008, I estimate the effect of file sharing on album sales....
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I quantify the effects of private-network music sharing on aggregate album sales in the BitTorrent era using a panel of US sales and private-network downloads for 2,109 albums during 2008. Exogenous shocks to the network's sharing constraints address the simultaneity problem. In theory,...
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Online copyright enforcement, in the form of either direct action against the supply-side (via website shutdowns) or the demand-side (via individual lawsuits against users), has not been very effective in reducing piracy. Regulators have therefore put forward the so called "follow the money"...
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