Digital products can be copied at almost no cost and are subject to non-commercial copying
by final consumers. Because the copy of a copy typically does not deteriorate in quality …

This article reviews recent theoretical contributions on digital piracy. It starts by elaborating
on the reasons for intellectual property protection, by reporting a few facts about copyright …

News production requires investment, and competitors' ability to appropriate a story may
reduce a media's incentives to provide original content. Yet, there is little legal protection of …

It is commonly believed that piracy of information goods leads to lower profits, which
translate to lower incentives to invest in innovation and eventually to lower-quality products …

Streaming music services represent the music industry's greatest prospective source of
revenue and are well established among consumers. This paper presents a theory of a …

Pay-what-you-want (PWYW) pricing is a pricing scheme under which buyers pay any
amount for a product, often including zero. Digital product firms may particularly benefit from …

This paper studies the impact of software piracy in a two-sided-market setting. Software
platforms attract developers and users to maximize their profits. The equilibrium price …

This paper analyses the issue of parallel trade (arbitrage) for products protected by
intellectual property rights. We discuss a basic trade‐off that arises between the ex post …

Controlling digital piracy has remained a top priority for manufacturers of information goods,
as well as for many governments around the world. Among the many forms taken by digital …

Illegal content uploads on social platforms have grown rapidly in recent years. While
previous research has studied various enforcement efforts to remove illegal content, we …