Let’s Talk about the “Effect on the Market”: The Light Version

Posted on Mar 17, 2012 | 1 comment Yesterday I wrote a rather lengthy post about the “Effect on the Market” in fair use and fair dealing analysis. With the lengthy comments on it, is has become even more interesting, but long. And serious. So here’s a lighter version....
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CIPC Study on P2P File-sharing Doesn’t support its Policy Recommendation

Posted on Mar 6, 2011 | 0 comments Last week, the Canadian Intellectual Property Council released a commissioned report on the effects of music file-sharing in Canada.  The report, titled The True Price of Peer to Peer File-Sharing, is based on a study conducted by Dr. George Barker, director for the Centre for Law and Economics at the Australian National University.  Dr. Baker revisited survey data gathered by Industry...
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The Social Science Research Council Comments on Software Piracy

Posted on Feb 22, 2011 | 0 comments The Social Science Research Council submitted a Comment to the USTR about software piracy, as part of the public hearing process for the 2011 Special 301 Report.  The submission cites, and largely echoes, my 2005 paper on network effects and software piracy.  Nice. The SSRC provides the following summary of its submission: Unlike recorded media business models such as the CD and DVD...
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