The Role of Antitrust in Protecting Competition, Innovation, and ConsumerssAs the Digital Revolution Matures: The Case Against the Universal-EMI Merger and E-Book Price Fixing

Cooper, Mark N.; Griffin, Jodie C.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2460992

SSRN Journal

2012

DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2460992

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The Role of Antitrust in Protecting Competition, Innovation, and ConsumerssAs the Digital Revolution Matures: The Case Against the Universal-EMI Merger and E-Book Price Fixing

Mark N. Cooper¹,

Jodie C. Griffin

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“…Individual users and consumers, who wish to access music, films and books in a digital format, for a reasonable price, in a legal convenient manner are often unable to do so. Copyright holders often fail to receive adequate compensation (Cooper and Griffin, 2012;Warner Music Group, 2010;Kampmann, 2010;Swedish Performing Rights Society, 2009;Kantar Media, 2012).…”

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Knocking on Heaven’s Door: User preferences on digital cultural distribution

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This paper explores the social, demographic and attitudinal basis of consumer support of a Copyright Compensation System (CCS), which, for a small monthly fee would legalise currently infringing online social practices such as private copying from illegal sources and online sharing of copyrighted works. We do this by first identifying how different online and offline, legal and illegal, free and paying content acquisition channels are used in the media market using a cluster-based classification of respondents. Second, we assess the effect of cultural consumption on the support for a shift from the status quo towards alternative, CCSbased forms of digital cultural content distribution. Finally, we link these two analyses to identify the factors that drive the dynamics of change in digital cultural consumption habits. Our study shows significant support to a CCS compared to the status quo by both occasional and frequent buyers of cultural goods, despite the widespread adoption of legal free and paying online services by consumers. The nature of these preferences are also explored with the inclusion of consumer preference intensities regarding certain CCS attributes. Our results have relevant policy implications, for they outline CCS as a reform option. In particular, they point evidence-based copyright reform away from its current direction in the EU of stronger enforcement measures, additional exclusive rights, and increased liability and duties of care for online platforms. This work shows that CCS may be an apt policy tool to hinder piracy and potentially increase right holder revenues, while respecting fundamental rights and promoting technological development.

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The Role of Antitrust in Protecting Competition, Innovation, and ConsumerssAs the Digital Revolution Matures: The Case Against the Universal-EMI Merger and E-Book Price Fixing

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Knocking on Heaven’s Door: User preferences on digital cultural distribution

Knocking on Heaven’s Door: User preferences on digital cultural distribution

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