The hidden treasure of piracy?

You probably know “Game of Thrones”, the most popular TV series of the moment. The first two seasons were …

Legal responses to online piracy

Yesterday (November 26, 2010), the New York Times published two short articles concerning online piracy of digital goods. The …

Just released: “Digital Piracy: Theory”

In “Digital Piracy: Theory” (click here to download), Paul Belleflamme and Martin Peitz review recent theoretical contributions on digital …

Who pays what on Spotify?

Imagine you moved from Denmark to Malaysia and you want to subscribe to Spotify Premium from your new home. …

Intellectual Property Rights at the Bilateral and Multilateral Levels: How to Reach Consistency?

This article is the third part of a three-piece series written by Lukas Vanhonnaeker (for the first and second …

Business models for digital goods: video games (episodic games)

In a recent post on IPdigIT Paul Belleflamme raised the question of what might be appropriate business models for …

Business models for digital goods in the face of the ‘culture of free’?

Piracy of digital goods is an issue that we have already addressed many times on this blog. Here is …

Media Ecosystems: Economic issues and policy implications

This is the fourth and last post of a series on Media Ecosystems. The first post draws the outline of the …

L’or caché des pirates ?

Vous avez certainement déjà entendu parler de “Games of Thrones”. C’est la série télé la plus populaire du moment. …

Megaupload, WikiLeaks: when online payment intermediaries seem to apply different standards

As everyone knows,  communicating on the Internet has nothing to do with a direct, face-to-face conversation. (The Internet, however, …