The fourth industrial revolution, termed Industry 4.0, offers a vital and valuable opportunity to
drive social and technological innovations. It has state-of-the-art cyber-physical systems and …

On-demand streaming services that rely on subscription fees or advertising as a revenue
source (eg, Spotify) are a topic of ongoing controversial debate in the music industry …

The sharing of sound recordings over the Internet is the newest controversy in a long-
running battle between copyright owners and copying technologies. In order to provide …

Recent technological and market forces have profoundly impacted the music industry.
Emphasizing threats from peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies, the industry continues to seek …

This article draws on the theory of disruption to analyze the impact of digital technology on
the recorded music industry and to explain the delay of dominant firms in reacting to this …

Despite the problem that filesharing poses to the creative industries, there is little research
on the effectiveness of governmental anti‐piracy policies. This study analyzes how the …

The data used by economists can be broadly divided into two categories. First, structured
datasets arise when a government agency, trade association, or company can justify the …

Consumers constantly confront intellectual property rights (IPRs) every day, from their
morning cup of Starbucks coffee to the Intel chip on their computer at work. Intellectual …

Digital piracy represents a significant threat to the marketers of digital service products.
Industry efforts to attenuate the practice, often deterrent in nature, have largely failed. We …

A growing empirical literature examines the relationship between music file sharing and
legal purchases of music, but existing studies examine the period before consumers had …