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Montoro-Pons and Cuadrado-García (2006)
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Digital goods and the effects of copying: an empirical study of the music market
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Montoro-Pons, J. D., Cuadrado-García, M.
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2006
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Montoro-Pons, Juan D., and Manuel Cuadrado-García. "Digital goods and the effects of copying: an empirical study of the music market." 14th International Conference on Cultural Economics, Vienna. 2006.
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Abstract
Digital goods, streams of information stored in bits with economic value, have
transformed the way many economic agents interact in markets and specially those in
the cultural sector. The non-rival nature of its consumption has had a significant impact
in different industries, specially the music industry: record labels have witnessed in the
last decade a proliferation of the means to circumvent copyright in protected materials.
This paper aims at assessing the impact of piracy on legal demand. Unlike previous
studies we address the issue from a wider perspective, considering both physical and
online piracy. Our findings show that there is a substitution effect between copies and
originals, and that there is no significant positive effect of piracy on legal demand,
which rules out the possibility of network effects or sampling effects much discussed
in the literature on piracy. Moreover we find that lost sales amount to a 131% of the
legal market on the average, even though there is a wide variation between countries.
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