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Piracy and Music Sales: The Effects of An Anti-Piracy Law
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Economics.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7062-4308
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Economics.
2014 (English)In: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, ISSN 0167-2681, E-ISSN 1879-1751, Vol. 105, p. 90-106Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The implementation of a copyright protection reform in Sweden in April 2009 suddenly increased the risk of being caught and punished for illegal file sharing. This paper investigates the impact of the reform on illegal file sharing and music sales using a difference-in-differences approach with Norway and Finland as control groups. We find that the reform decreased Internet traffic by 16% and increased music sales by 36% during the first six months. Pirated music therefore seems to be a strong substitute to legal music. However, the reform effects disappeared almost completely after six months, likely because of the weak enforcement of the law.

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Elsevier, 2014. Vol. 105, p. 90-106
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copyright protection, anti-piracy law, piracy, file sharing, music sales
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Economics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-223910DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2014.04.026ISI: 000339703100006OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-223910DiVA, id: diva2:714420
Available from: 2014-04-28 Created: 2014-04-28 Last updated: 2017-12-05Bibliographically approved

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