AUTHOR: Peter C. DiCola ABSTRACT: “This article is based on an original survey of over 5,000 musicians nationwide. The survey results demonstrate the diversity of the population of musicians, in terms of genre, income bracket, demographics, education, and many other…
Copy Culture in the US and Germany is a comparative study of digital culture, focusing on media consumption, media acquisition, and attitudes toward copyright enforcement. The study is based on a large-scale phone survey of Americans and Germans in late…
[Originally posted by Ernesto on TorrentFreak, CC-BY-NC] A new study released by researchers from Boston’s Northeastern University shows that censoring “pirate” sites by blocking or seizing their domains is ineffective. The researchers looked at the availability of various pirated media…
So another case has come along to illustrate the excesses of the US system of statutory penalties for copyright infringement–here, a $1.5 million judgement against a guy for sharing 10 porn films on BitTorrent. Previous infringement cases suggest that there…
We’ve looked at the difference age makes to copying and downloading (a lot), and gender (not much), and politics (not much). How about race/ethnicity? Well, it makes some. Here is our sequence of questions about attitudes toward sharing music….
Some weeks ago, we published a lengthy blog post called Where do Music Collections Come From? which discussed findings from our Copy Culture survey. Some of the data demonstrated that P2P file sharers (who own digital music files) buy more…
Continuing our march through the demographics of Copy Culture in the US and Germany, let’s look at gender. Would you bet that file sharing is mostly the province of young men? If you did, you would lose. Using our broadest…
The following is an excerpt from the full paper by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine, published as a working paper for the St. Louis Federal Reserve. The full paper is available here. The case against patents can be summarized…
A new paper by Roya Ghafele and Benjamin Gibert provides empirical evidence that Singapore’s adoption of fair use into its copyright law had a positive effect on it economy. The authors examine data from the private copying industries – defined…
In our last installment, we noted that there’s a sharp generational divide (in the US and Germany) in attitudes toward copying and file sharing, with those under 30 showing more acceptance of these practices in general and much more acceptance…
We’re kicking off our Copy Culture in the US and Germany pre-release festivities with a fresh(ish) look at an old question: is unauthorized file sharing wrong? Or more properly: do Americans think it’s wrong?
[Announcement by Ellen Broad] Today the Australian Digital Alliance published important economic research which found that flexible and technology neutral copyright laws will, over time, add $600 million in annual productivity gains to the Australian economy.