We test the concept of contestability in the digital music player market. The theory suggests that the threat of new …. The portable music player market has been dominated by one producer. We estimate a quality-adjusted price index from 2002 …

In January 2012, Capitol Records (a label of EMI Music) sued ReDigi (a secondhand marketplace for digital music files …) for copyright infringement. This paper discusses the legal framework of the resale of digital music files and analyzes the … digital music should be permissible as a matter of policy. It is argued that ReDigi should prevail in court since no copying …

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 … often perceived as an obstacle to greater availability. However, other factors such as commercial strategies by music …

This paper provides an overview of economic approaches to the pricing of mechanical royalties for copy-protected music … model of downstream entities (notably, digital music streaming platforms) changes (i.e., neutrality) and the level of the …

Many view the music industry’s transition to an online distribution based business model as having been inevitable … since Napster first made consumers aware of the ease with which they could access vast amounts of music online. Others … insist the average listener’s growing familiarity with online music download services combined with the recent integration of …