Intellectual property rights are fundamental to how economies organize innovation and steer
the diffusion of knowledge. Copyright law, in particular, has developed constantly to keep up …

COVID-19 induced restrictions ordered by governments around the world have been an
exogenous shock to the music industry, which we divide into two affected groups: 1) live …

In this proposal of a research agenda for cultural economics, I discuss the supply-side
economics of the next wave of digital technological change. I begin by arguing that …

Private copying exceptions in copyright law allow individuals to make personal copies
without infringing on rights. Copyright levies aim to compensate rightsholders for resulting …

The paper argues that the paradigmatic shift from the sale of printed music to exploiting and
managing musical rights that took place in music publishing during the early years of the …

In a homogeneous good Cournot duopoly, a firm owns a cost-reducing technology and has
a non-controlling share over its rival. We show that partial passive ownership holdings …

Crowdfunding is an innovation from the cultural sector that has found broad applications in
other aspects of the economy. We document that cultural economics provides a refined …

We evaluate the unexpected shutdown of kino. to, a major platform for unlicensed video
streaming in the German market. Using highly disaggregated clickstream data in a …

The last two decades have witnessed an increasing scholarly interest on music
consumption. This interest can be explained, at least partly, to the relevance of music as a …

The advent of the information society has put the field of information law squarely on the
map. Information law is the law relating to the production, marketing, distribution, and use of …