Author: Laurina Zhang Abstract: Digitization has impacted firm profitability in many media industries by lowering the cost of copying and sharing creative works. I examine the impact of digital rights management (DRM) – a prevalent strategy used by firms in…
Due to the growing need to better understand the technological and cultural transformations that digitization has caused in the production and consumption of content and news, and recognizing the importance of guaranteeing access to abundant and reliable information, researchers from the Center for Technology and Society (CTS/ FGV Rio Law School) worked alongside the Open Society Foundations in a project, involving more than 50 countries, which analyzed the impacts of this process of digitization in Brazil and around the world.
[Open Media press release, Link, (CC-BY-NC-SA)] Citizens from across the globe want balanced copyright rules that are shaped democratically, respect creators, and prioritize free expression. That’s the message of Our Digital Future: A Crowdsourced Agenda for Free Expression, a new…
[Medicines Patent Pool press release, Link, (CC-BY)]The report provides an overview of the patent and licensing status of a select number of antiretroviral medicines in developing countries. Focusing mainly on ARVs recommended by the World Health Organization, the document analyses…
Reposted description from the CREATe launch announcement CREATe Working Paper 5/14 Steven James Watson, Daniel John Zizzo and Piers Fleming (2014) Using systematic reviewing techniques drawn from the medical sciences, a team of behavioural economists and psychologists from the University…
Jonathan Band and Jonathan Gerafi In March 2014, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) announced that global industry revenues declined 3.9 percent in 2013. IFPI claims that “digital piracy is the biggest single threat to the development of…
The IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) released its annual digital music report last week. It reports a strong (51.3%) growth in digital subscription services, as well as growth from ad-supported streaming services. Like previous IFPI digital music reports,…
[Cross posted from the DisCo Blog, Link] The second season of the gripping Washington drama House of Cards, starring Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright, will be available on Netflix in two weeks. But this post is about a different house…
Earlier this week, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce released the second edition of its Global Intellectual Property Index, a report which grades countries on the strength of their IP protection. This year’s index covers 25 countries, including all of the…
Jonathan Band and Jonathan Gerafi Notwithstanding the challenges of quantifying the impact of copyright infringement on particular companies or industry sectors, there is a useful neutral source of qualitative information on the likely impact of infringement: the reports prepared by…
Another installment from the 2013 Global Congress Research Survey, focused on research priorities around creative industries, incentives, and changing cultural practices. Part 1 provides an explanation of the survey and the first collection of comments. Part 2 focuses mostly on…
The copyright industries hire a lot of people, and employment figures are often used to argue for stronger protection for rightholders. But do the industries in countries with stronger protection for rightholders hire more people than the same industries in…