8:30 am – 10:30 am
Thursday, May 8, 2014
City Club
555 13th Street, NW
Washington, DC
Pre-Registration is now closed. Please join us at the event, we’ll be happy to register you onsite.
Digital channels for distribution create new opportunities for artists and content owners, but also new challenges in enforcing copyright and reducing piracy. How much of an impact does piracy have on the creative industries? Have past efforts to curb piracy been effective? This panel discussion will highlight findings from recent empirical research analyzing the impact of piracy on sales of copyrighted products and quantifying the effectiveness of both policy-based and market-based strategies for fighting piracy.
Agenda
8:30 am
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Panel Discussion
Michael Smith, Senior Adjunct Fellow, Technology Policy Institute, and Professor of Information Systems and Marketing and the Co-Director, Initiative for Digital Entertainment Analytics, Carnegie Mellon University
Joel Waldfogel, Professor, Frederick R Kappel Chair in Applied Economics, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota
Alejandro Zentner, Associate Professor of Managerial Economics, University of Texas at Dallas
Thomas Lenard (moderator), President and Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute
10:30 am
Adjourn
“The Evolving Media Landscape: What do the Data Show?” will be held Thursday, May 8, 2014 from 8:30am to 10:30am at the City Club, located at 555 13th Street, NW, in Washington, DC. Registration and a continental breakfast will begin at 8:30, with the program starting at 9:00. Registration can be performed on the TPI website. Questions should be directed to Ashley Benjamin at [email protected]. Members of the press should contact Amy Smorodin at [email protected].
The Technology Policy Institute
The Technology Policy Institute is a non-profit research and educational organization that focuses on the economics of innovation, technological change, and related regulation in the United States and around the world. More information is available at https://techpolicyinstitute.org/.
