Copyright Research in the Digital Age: Moving from Piracy to the Supply of New Products
回顾了Napster时代以来经济学家对盗版收入影响的研究,指出数字时代版权政策还需关注数字化对新产品供给、消费者发现和新商业模式的影响。
Twelve years into the Napster era, economists have devoted substantial attention to revenue consequences of unpaid file sharing. Yet, this is only one of a host of questions whose answers are needed to inform evidence-based copyright policy in the digital era. Digitization's effect on travel agents suggests fruitful research questions, which include the impact of digitization on the supply of new works, methods for consumer discovery of new products, and new business models available with digital distribution.