Catch Me If You Can: Effectiveness and Consequences of Online Copyright Enforcement

Abstract

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Does piracy lead to product abandonment or stimulate new product development?: Evidence from mobile platform‐based developer firms

“…Many studies have looked explicitly at different forms in which piracy was regulated and the impact of these policies on the consumption of pirated goods (Aguiar, Claussen, & Peukert, 2018; Batikas, Claussen, & Peukert, 2019; Luo & Mortimer, 2017; Reimers, 2016). These studies document that while there may be opportunities to regulate piracy through either technological or policy interventions, their impacts on consumption are mixed, suggesting that piracy may continue to affect digital innovators even following these interventions.…”

The Unintended Consequences of Antipiracy Laws on Markets with Asymmetric Piracy: The Case of the French Movie Industry

“…Similarly, Zhang (2018) finds that the removal of protection against piracy increases sales of niche products in the music industry. Finally, Aguiar et al (2018) show that the closure of a large illegal video streaming platform in Germany has not increased legal sales because individuals can use alternative illegal platforms. This article is also related to the empirical literature on the effects of piracy on legal sales.…”

The effects of movie piracy on box-office revenue: an empirical analysis of the Chinese movie market

“…Another approach I take is to use the Chinese government's anti-piracy campaigns as a natural experiment for estimating revenue loss caused by piracy in both the short and long terms. Previous research has used these copyright protection actions as natural experiments to investigate the impact of intellectual property protection on the sale of licensed products (Aguiar et al, 2018;Adermon & Liang, 2014;Danaher, Smith, Telang, & Chen, 2014;Orme, 2014). Following these examples, I also make use of several quasi-natural experiments to analyze the effects of copyright protection campaigns on theatrical box office sales in China.…”