The effects of (private, small-scale) piracy on the pricing behavior of producers of information goods are studied …

The effects of (private, small-scale) copying on the pricing behavior of producers of information goods are studied … involves a fixed cost and no marginal cost, pricing decisions are interdependent. We investigate the strategic pricing game by …

The effects of (private, small-scale) piracy on the pricing behavior of producers of information goods are studied …

The effects of (private, small-scale) copying on the pricing behavior of producers of information goods are studied … symmetric Nash equilibria of the pricing game played by n producers of information goods. We show thereby how the producers …' attitudes towards piracy are interdependent and evolve with the relative attractiveness of copies. …

The effects of (private, small-scale) copying on the pricing behavior of producers of information goods are studied … symmetric Nash equilibria of the pricing game played by n producers of information goods. We show thereby how the producers …' attitudes towards piracy are interdependent and evolve with the relative attractiveness of copies …

This essay asks: How did we get into the current crisis of copyright law, and how to move beyond it? This crisis … has become acute as media progress has brought cultural creations online: we now increasingly face ever-harder copyright … that it finds common to the laws of copyright and of authors' rights. At the start, to assure that such rights operate …

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

We present an information good pricing model with persistently heterogeneous consumers and a rising marginal propensity … for them to pirate. Three offsetting pricing mechanisms occur: skimming, compressing price changes, and delaying product … launch. We identify a novel trade off in piracy's effect on welfare. We find that piracy quickens sales times and raises …

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