Streaming, Sharing, Stealing by Michael D. Smith & Rahul Telang

Author:Michael D. Smith & Rahul Telang
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 2016-05-30T04:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. Jeff Goodell, “Steve Jobs: The Rolling Stone Interview,” Rolling Stone, December 3, 2003.

2. http://www.indiewire.com/article/guest-post-heres-how-piracy-hurts-indie-film-20140711

3. Music revenue in the United States fell from $14.6 billion in 1999 to $6.3 million in 2009. Source: http://money.cnn.com/2010/02/02/news/companies/napster_music_industry/

4. Source: Stan Liebowitz, “The Impacts of Internet Piracy,” in Handbook on the Economics of Copyright: A Guide for Students and Teachers, ed. R. Watt (Edward Elgar, 2014).

5. For example, MGM Studios v. Grokster, a 2005 US Supreme Court decision that established “that one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright … is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties.”

6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act#cite_note-HousePress-28

7. https:/www.riaa.com/physicalpiracy.php?content_selector=piracy-online-scope-of-the-problem

8. http://ftp.jrc.es/EURdoc/JRC79605.pdf

9. http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/digital-piracy-not-harming-entertainment-industries-study-1.1894729

10. For a brief review of this literature with citations, see Michael Smith and Rahul Telang, “Competing with Free: The Impact of Movie Broadcasts on DVD Sales and Internet Piracy,” Management Information Systems Quarterly 33, no. 2 (2009): 312–338.

11. Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf, “The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis,” Journal of Political Economy 115, no. 1 2007): 1–42.

12. Brett Danaher, Michael D. Smith, and Rahul Telang, “Piracy and Copyright Enforcement Mechanisms,” in Innovation Policy and the Economy, volume 14, ed. J. Lerner and S. Stern (National Bureau of Economic Research, 2014).

13. Brett Danaher, Michael D. Smith, and Rahul Telang, “Copyright Enforcement in the Digital Age: Empirical Economic Evidence and Conclusions,” prepared for tenth session of World Intellectual Property Organization Advisory Committee on Enforcement, Geneva.

14. The 2014 chapter included nineteen papers. The 2015 paper included two additional publications that appeared after the 2014 chapter went to press. The full list includes four additional papers that were brought to our attention after the 2015 paper became public.

15. Given this consensus, what should we make of the remaining three papers that found no evidence of harm? The most natural interpretation is that there are some settings in which piracy doesn’t significantly harm sales. For example, table 6.1 in the appendix to this chapter includes a paper in which we find no statistical harm from piracy that occurs at the time when a movie is shown on broadcast television networks (typically several years after a movie leaves the theaters), but we also note in the paper that these results “do not speak to the impact of piracy in the earlier part of a movie’s life-cycle, where the availability of pirated content may have a negative impact on sales” (Michael Smith and Rahul Telang, “Competing with Free: The Impact of Movie Broadcasts on DVD Sales and Internet Piracy,” Management Information Systems Quarterly 33, no. 2, 2009: 312–338, p. 336). It is also possible that the reported results are correct under the specific assumptions or empirical approach the authors used, but the results might change under a different set of assumptions or with a different empirical approach (see, for example, Rafael Rob and Joel Waldfogel, “Piracy on the High C’s: Music Downloading, Sales Displacement, and Social Welfare in a Sample of College Students,” Journal of Law and Economics 49, no. 1 (2006): 29–62; Stan Liebowitz, “How Reliable is the Oberholzer-Gee and Strumpf Paper on File-Sharing?” (http://ssrn.

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