(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 …

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

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 …

(as some copyright holders claim) that this kind of easy copying may destroy the incentives to create and 'kill …' copyrights. The sharing trend indeed is vastly used to copy protected works. During the years the copyright law has been … negotiated among the representatives of copyright-owning and copyright-using industries while the public, which is expected and …

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 …