Copyright enforcement in the digital age

Danaher, Brett; Smith, Michael D.; Telang, Rahul

doi:10.1145/2979673

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“…In general, there is a vast empirical literature on the effects of different types of interventions and enforcement rules on the levels of infringement online and offline which due to space constraints we will not cover here. For an overview, see Danaher et al (2017).…”

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Intermediary Liability and Trade in Follow-on Innovation

Cuntz

Sahli

2023

SSRN Journal

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Intermediary Liability and Trade in Follow-on Innovation

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Sahli

2023

SSRN Journal

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“…Digital piracy refers to the accessing of copyrighted content from an unlicensed source, which includes BitTorrent, stream-rippers, cyberlockers and illegal streams of live events (Gov, 2021). A literature review by Danaher et al (2017) suggests that 23 out of 26 studies find that piracy displaces legal sales and causes economic harm. The Motion Picture Association suggests that piracy costs the US film industry $6.1 billion (MPA, 2006), though Siwek (2006) suggests this estimate is modest.…”

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Psychological Reactance to Anti-Piracy Messages explained by Gender and Attitudes

Whitman,

Murad,

Cox

2024

J Bus Ethics

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Digital piracy is costly to creative economies across the world. Studies indicate that anti-piracy messages can cause people to pirate more rather than less, suggesting the presence of psychological reactance. A gender gap in piracy behavior and attitudes towards piracy has been reported in the literature. By contrast, gender differences in message reactance and the moderating impact of attitudes have not been explored. This paper uses evolutionary psychology as a theoretical framework to examine whether messages based on real-world anti-piracy campaigns cause reactance and whether this effect is explained by gender and pre-existing attitudes. An experiment compares one prosocial and two threatening messages against a control group to analyze changes in piracy intention from past behavior for digital TV/film. Results indicate that the prosocial message has no significant effect, whereas the threatening messages have significantly opposing effects on men and women. One threatening message influences women to reduce their piracy intentions by over 50% and men to increase it by 18%. We find that gender effects are moderated by pre-existing attitudes, as men and women who report the most favorable attitudes towards piracy tend to demonstrate the most polarized changes in piracy intentions. The practical implications of the results are that men and women process threatening messages differently, therefore behavioral change messages should be carefully targeted to each gender. Explicitly, threatening messages may be effective on women, but may have the reverse effect on men with strong favorable attitudes towards the target behavior.

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“…In general, there is vast empirical literature on the effects of different types of interventions and enforcement rules on the levels of infringement online and offline which due to space constraints we will not cover here. For an overview, see Danaher et al ( 2017 ).…”

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Intermediary liability and trade in follow-on innovation

Cuntz

Sahli

2023

J Cult Econ

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Intellectual property rights have changed the market value and direction of artistic innovation throughout art history, in particular when new creations built on the art of predecessors. In this paper, we test how changes in legal frameworks and litigation risks affected market value and commercial trade around artistic reuses in the figurative arts and the ‘Appropriation Art’ movement in particular. Appropriation artists borrow images from different sources and incorporate them into new, derivative works of art. By doing so, they risk infringing copyright but also put auction trade and artwork availability at litigation risk as liability can extend to market intermediaries, such as auction houses, museums, or galleries. Using a differences-in-differences model and large-scale online data, we investigate the causal impact of the prominent Cariou v. Prince U.S. higher court decision on intermediary trade and the availability of artworks on sale in the Appropriation Art. As an exogenous shock, this decision changed the perceived litigation risk for market intermediaries around what constitutes fair use. Following the court decision, we find a temporary decline in the total number of global auctions in the Appropriation Art, a lower sales probability of these artworks, and a relocation of related auctions to non-U.S. houses.

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Copyright enforcement in the digital age

Cited by 31 publications

References 25 publications

Intermediary Liability and Trade in Follow-on Innovation

Intermediary Liability and Trade in Follow-on Innovation

Psychological Reactance to Anti-Piracy Messages explained by Gender and Attitudes

Intermediary liability and trade in follow-on innovation

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