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 …

The Internet through the world-wide-web has well and truly opened 'Pandora's Box'as far as
the record industry is concerned, and there is no going back. The extensive use of illegal file …

Streaming music services represent the music industry's greatest prospective source of
revenue and are well established among consumers. This paper presents a theory of a …

The implementation of a copyright protection reform in Sweden in April 2009 suddenly
increased the risk of being caught and punished for illegal file sharing. This paper …

The purpose of this article is to make an assessment of the empirical literature dedicated to
the consequences of piracy on the cultural industry. The diversity of data collected and …

Patents and their renewals are critical because they protect inventions and reinforce
information reported to investors about the utility and the quality of inventions. Thus, they …

Much recent economic work on the music industry has been focused on the impact of
technology on demand, with predictions being made of digital copyright infringement …

In a duopoly, we study the interaction between public (copyright) and private protection of
intellectual property rights (IPR). Software developers offer products with differing qualities …

The music industry is facing the development of online peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, direct
download services and other forms of digital piracy, while at the same time the format and …

In this article, we present a scenario planning approach that is a hybrid of three main
schools of thought. We propose such an approach in order to develop scenarios for a …