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American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings

Copyright Infringement in the Market for Digital Images

By: Hong Luo and Julie Holland Mortimer

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Abstract

Digital technologies for sharing creative goods create new opportunities for copyright infringement and challenge established enforcement methods. We establish several important facts about the nature of copyright infringement and efforts to settle past infringing use in the market for digital images. Infringement in this, and many other markets, is often uninformed—users may be unaware of their use infringement, and they may lack information about the price of a license. The uninformed nature of infringement implies that price may not be the primary factor in the decision to settle past use; in contrast, non-price factors may significantly affect settlement outcomes.

Keywords

Technology; Creativity; Copyright

Citation

Luo, Hong, and Julie Holland Mortimer. "Copyright Infringement in the Market for Digital Images." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 106, no. 5 (May 2016): 140–145.