. In theory, piracy could crowd out legitimate sales by building file sharing capacity, but could also increase sales …

More intensive copyright enforcement reduces piracy, raises prices, and lowers consumer surplus. We show that these … encouraging piracy among low-value buyers. Extending enforcement down the demand curve broadens the copyright holder s captive …-value buyers such as corporate and government users, the copyright holder has an incentive to charge super-monopoly prices, thereby …

U.S. intellectual property law is firmly rooted in utilitarian principles. Copyright law is viewed as a means to give … proper monetary incentives to authors for their creative effort. Many European copyright systems pursue additional goals … moral rights protection should differ across the Atlantic and whether a purely profit-based theory of copyright law is …

This paper empirically investigates determinants of digital piracy in Germany for several types of digitized products … process from peer-to-peer online networks to offline forms of file swapping. Our findings are confirmed by recent piracy …

U.S. intellectual property law is firmly rooted in utilitarian principles. Copyright law is viewed as a means to give … proper monetary incentives to authors for their creative effort. Many European copyright systems pursue additional goals … moral rights protection should differ across the Atlantic and whether a purely profit-based theory of copyright law is …