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 the promise of increasing revenues, profits, and consumer...

Gegenstand des Gutachtens ist die Analyse der Auswirkungen eines Leistungsschutzrechtes für digitale Presseinhalte im Internet (Leistungsschutzrecht für Presseverleger) aus ökonomischer Perspektive. Hintergrund ist das Vorhaben der Bundesregierung, ein solches Leistungsschutzrecht noch in...

This paper reviews an estimate of the economic effect on the New Zealand economy of copyright term extension which was recently released by the New Zealand Government but which was tabled as part of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations on the IP Chapter. The estimate is that the...

George S. Ford’s criticism of the study ‘A Counterfactual Impact Analysis of Fair Use Policy on Copyright Related Industries in Singapore’ is questionable. His critique on multiple treatment and data aggregation is in light of the methods used not fully justified. His critique of the...

This article explores methods and issues in measuring the contributions of copyright industries to national economies. It reveals the importance of copyright value creation, identifies copyright industries and activities that make economic contributions, discusses problems of measurement,...