(artists) but by intermediaries. Their profits, and therefore also the income of the artists, are endangered by copyright …

This paper uses data from an online database of music sampling to estimate the effect of copyright protection on the … that copyright protection causes an upstream work to be used less than half as often as it would if it were in the public … domain after conditioning on upstream-song and downstream-year fixed effects. Placebo regressions in which the copyright …

Illegal downloading of copyright materials by end-users had its heyday in the early 2000s, with music, television, and …, and the damages varied between $222.000 and $1.92 million. Building on this copyright infringement case, the chapter … ponders the appropriateness of copyright infringement damages in a world where many infringers see no profit from their …

Written by a leading expert in copyright valuation, the paper reviews critical considerations for estimating damages in …

In copyright, we are guided by a simple intuition: More revenue leads to more original works. But the relationship … between revenue and creative output is not so simple. Broadening copyright in order to increase the revenue associated with … same time, however, because copyright protection is uniform, broadening copyright also increases the revenue associated …

Music Authors. After the war, the field of copyright in the country re-borned with adoption of the Copyrights Law, being …

copyrights continues to be scarce, primarily due to a lack of exogenous variation in modern copyright laws. To address this issue … and durability. Notably, there is no evidence of comparable benefits for extensions in copyright lengths beyond the life …

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technologies are often seen as a threat by copyright owners because they encourage piracy by making … original products before they make their purchase decision. We determine copyright owners' protection strategies according to …