Brett Danaher, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang Earlier this week, we gave a keynote talk at the Sundance Film Festival about how piracy impacts independent filmmakers. Our talk was based…
By Michael Smith, Peter Boatwright and Patrick Choi Everyone knows that movies that are popular in theaters are also popular at home. But no one knows whether increased theater viewing…
Brett Danaher, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang It is well established in the academic research that piracy harms sales for entertainment goods;[1] and there is emerging evidence that, by reducing…
Understanding the relationship between copyright policy and consumer behavior is an increasingly important topic for participants in digital media markets. In this paper we seek to study how consumer behavior…
Last month, Rahul Telang and I blogged about research we conducted with Liron Sivan where we used a field experiment to analyze how the position of pirate links in search results impact…
With the growing consensus in the empirical literature that piracy harms sales, and emerging evidence that increased piracy can affect both the quantity and quality of content produced (here and here for example), governments…
(Below is a guest post by my colleague, Rahul Telang from Carnegie Mellon University) That Piracy undermines demand for products in copyright industries is intuitive and well supported by data.…
This past week a DVD-quality copy of the movie The Expendables 3 leaked online three weeks before its planned U.S. theatrical release. According to Variety, the film was downloaded 189,000…
Digitization raises a variety of important academic and managerial questions around firm strategies and public policies for the content industries, with many of these questions influenced by the erosion of…
The growth of Internet-based piracy has led to a wide-ranging debate over how copyright policy should be enforced in the digital era. In this paper we analyze the impact of…
