Digital copying and the supply of sound recordings

Quality Predictability and the Welfare Benefits from New Products: Evidence from the Digitization of Recorded Music

“…As documented elsewhere, the cost of production, promotion, and distribution of new music have fallen sharply with digitization. These cost reductions are substantial enough to have enabled growth in the number of new products despite the drastic decline in revenue; and the number of new recorded music products brought to market each year has risen since 1990 and more sharply since 2000 (Oberholzer-Gee and Strumpf, 2010;Handke, 2012;Waldfogel, 2013;Aguiar and Waldfogel, 2016). According to Nielsen data, the number of new music products brought to market tripled between 2000 and 2008.…”

Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie? The Supply of New Recorded Music Since Napster

“…By extension, the new supply is the number of new songs or albums available in, say, a given year. Oberholzer- Gee and Strumpf (2009) and Handke (2006Handke ( , 2010 point to evidence that the number of albums released in the US and Germany -and that the number of labels operating in Germany -have not declined in the past decade to argue that file sharing has not interrupted the flow of new works. While this evidence is quite interesting, one might be concerned about that the great skew in the sales distribution undermines proportionality -and perhaps even the monotonicity -between titles and welfare.…”

Copyright infringement online: The case of the Digital Economy Act judicial review in the United Kingdom

“…Academic studies pursuing this approach are fewer in number. Handke (2012) has shown that, for Germany, while the revenues of the industry declined in the period during which online file-sharing has become prevalent, this has not influenced the number of recordings published. 3 In addition to music publishing, music industry revenues include receipts from live performances and related merchandise (mementos and apparel related to artists and their creations).…”

“… 3. At least until 2006, the last year aggregate published data on new titles was available. Handke (2012) also considers two possible confounding effects. 1.…”