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 …

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 …

copyright protection – will disrupt cultural supply. The empirical findings of this study suggest that this concern is not … conventional economic analysis of digital copying. They also deflate the case for additional public expenditure on copyright …

show that enhanced copyright protection to counteract the impacts of digitalization may have an unexpected effect on the …

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

attributed to the territoriality of the copyright management regime. In most cases rights holders are in a position to issue …

strong substitute for legal music whereas the substitutability is less for movies. -- copyright protection ; piracy ; file …