Category Surveys and Data

The Decline of Online Piracy: How Markets – Not Enforcement – Drive Down Copyright Infringement

[João Quintais and Joost Poort] Abstract: This article... combines different sources and empirical methods, including consumer surveys among nearly 35.000 respondents and comparative legal research. Our main conclusion is that online piracy is declining. The key driver for this decline is the increasing availability of affordable legal content, rather than enforcement measures. Where the legal supply of copyright-protected content is affordable, convenient and diverse, consumers are willing to pay for it and abandon piracy.

CEO Compensation in the Copyright-Intensive Industries

Jonathan Band and Jonathan Gerafi.  Today we’re releasing a study on CEO compensation in copyright-intensive industries. We found that for the past six years, the CEOs of firms in copyright-intensive industries received significantly higher compensation than the CEOs of the firms…

Cautionary Tales About Collective Rights Organizations

Collective licensing has been suggested as a possible solution for the obstacle copyright law places in the path of new uses of works enabled by innovative technologies.   Collective licensing does have the potential to reduce transaction costs when a large…

Consumers International Publishes IP Watchlist

Consumers International has published its third annual IP Watchlist, which “assesses the fairness of the world’s intellectual property laws and enforcement practices from an important yet under-represented perspective: that of an ordinary consumer.”  The best-rated countries are Moldova, the U.S.,…