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Digital products have the property that they can be copied almost costlessly. This makes them candidates for non-commercial copying by final consumers. Because the copy of a copy typically does not deteriorate in quality, copying products can become a wide-spread phenomenon this can be...
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The goal of this paper is to analyze the behaviour of digital music consumers on the Internet. Using clickstream data on a panel of more than 16,000 European consumers, we estimate the effects of illegal downloading and legal streaming on the legal purchases of digital music. Our results suggest...
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The goal of this paper is to analyze the behaviour of digital music consumers on the Internet. Using clickstream data on a panel of more than 16,000 European consumers, we estimate the effects of illegal downloading and legal streaming on the legal purchases of digital music. Our results suggest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011170072
also shows that Spotify displaces music piracy. Given the current industry's revenue from track sales ($0.82 per sale) and …
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digital music sales and piracy. While often overlooked in practice, theoretical considerations suggest that these effects may … affects music purchasing and piracy behavior. We exploit the introduction of a listening cap by the French streaming platform …
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Digitization has vastly increased the amount of new music produced and, because of streaming, has raised the number of songs available directly to consumers. While enhanced availability has levelled the playing field between already-prominent and new artists, creators may now be highly dependent...
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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 …
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This article reviews recent theoretical contributions on digital piracy. It starts by elaborating on the reasons for … intellectual property protection, by reporting a few facts about copyright protection, and by examining reasons to become a digital … pirate. Next, it provides an exploration of the consequences of digital piracy, using a base model and several extensions …
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This article reviews recent theoretical contributions on digital piracy. It starts by elaborating on the reasons for … intellectual property protection, by reporting a few facts about copyright protection, and by examining reasons to become a digital … pirate. Next, it provides an exploration of the consequences of digital piracy, using a base model and several extensions …
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This article reviews recent theoretical contributions on digital piracy. It starts by elaborating on the reasons for … intellectual property protection, by reporting a few facts about copyright protection, and by examining reasons to become a digital … pirate. Next, it provides an exploration of the consequences of digital piracy, using a base model and several extensions …
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