including copyright-related trade costs probably still play a role in music though we can only infer this indirectly in the …The EU seeks to create a seamless online Digital Single Market for media products such as digital music and film. The … territoriality of the copyright regime is often perceived as an obstacle that induces geographical segmentation. This paper provides …

The music industry is facing the development of online P2P networks, direct download services and other forms of … digital piracy, while at the same time the format and promotion of pre-recorded music are undergoing major transformations …. The chapter is organized as follows. First, I analyze how digital piracy and digital music distribution are changing the …

content. For popular and technological reasons, the music industry has become the first major content industry to face the … legal issues surrounding the rapid and widespread distribution of digital music. This article attempts to summarize the …

Since the launch of the iTunes Music Store in the US in 2003 and in much of Europe in the following years, music trade …. Despite substantial growth in availability, the available choice sets of digital music have not fully converged across … countries. The territorial fragmentation of the EU copyright management regime and related cross-border transaction costs are …

The objective of this paper is to document the evolution of cross-border music trade patterns in this transition period … and to explain what drives digital music trade patterns. The shift from analogue to digital music distribution has … substantially reduced trade costs and has enlarged the choice sets of music consumers around the world. Using comprehensive data on …

digitization of music and management of musical rights. This paper suggests that collaborative concentration may be preferable to …Digitization has had a profound effect on the management of musical copyrights in terms of data requirements and has …. This paper explores these points using information provided by PRS for Music, the UK’s collecting society managing musical …

Streaming music services have exploded in popularity in the past few years, variously raising optimism and concern … about their impacts on recorded music revenue. On the one hand, streaming services allow sellers to engage in bundling with … interest in music not generating revenue through individual track sales - unpaid consumption and deadweight loss - into …

Since the launch of the iTunes Music Store in the US in 2003 and in much of Europe in the following years, music trade …. Despite substantial growth in availability, choice sets have not converged across countries; and observers point to copyright …-related transaction costs as an obstacle to greater availability. Policy makers are now contemplating various copyright reforms that could …

sharing and the parallel fall in music industry revenue as a natural experiment in radically reduced copyright protection …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 …