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Copyright Infringement in the Market for Digital Images

By: Hong Luo and Julie Holland Mortimer
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... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Creativity; Copyright
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  • Fall 2023
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Infringing Use as a Path to Legal Consumption: Evidence from a Field Experiment

By: Hong Luo and Julie Holland Mortimer
Digitization has transformed how users find and use copyrighted goods, but many existing legal options remain difficult to access, possibly leading to infringement. In a field experiment, we contact firms that are caught infringing on expensive digital images. Emails... View Details
Keywords: Copyright Infringement; Field Experiment; Copyright; Lawfulness
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  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Infringing Use as a Path to Legal Consumption: Evidence from a Field Experiment

By: Hong Luo and Julie Holland Mortimer
Digitization has transformed how users find and use copyrighted goods, but many existing legal options remain difficult to access, possibly leading to infringement. In a field experiment, we contact firms that are caught infringing on expensive digital images. Emails... View Details
Keywords: Copyright Infringement; Field Experiment; Intellectual Property; Lawfulness
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  • September 2024
  • Background Note

Copyright and Fair Use

By: David B. Yoffie
The U.S. Copyright Office defines a copyright as “a type of intellectual property that protects original works of authorship as soon as an author fixes the work in a tangible form of expression.” Two core principles of copyright are originality and fixation. A work is... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Copyright; Lawsuits and Litigation; United States
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  • Summer 2017
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Copyright Enforcement: Evidence from Two Field Experiments

By: Hong Luo and Julie Holland Mortimer
Effective dispute resolution is important for reducing private and social costs. We study how resolution responds to changes in price and communication using a new, extensive dataset of copyright infringement incidences by firms. The data cover two field experiments... View Details
Keywords: Copyright; Law Enforcement; Lawsuits and Litigation; Cost
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  • 26 Feb 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

Infringing Use as a Path to Legal Consumption: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Keywords: by Hong Luo and Julie Holland Mortimer
  • 23 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up

the violators? First off, the monetary amounts at stake are often small—tens or hundreds of dollars in licensing fees. Is it worth the time, cost, and effort to send a bunch of settlement request letters? Second, few of these types of digital View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing
  • 01 Mar 2016
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March 1, 2016

Enforcement: Evidence from Two Field Experiments By: Luo, Hong, and Julie Holland Mortimer Abstract—Effective dispute resolution is important for reducing private and social costs. We study how resolution responds to changes in price and communication using a new,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2015
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September 15, 2015

next steps. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49599 Copyright Enforcement: Evidence from Two Field Experiments By: Luo, Hong, and Julie Holland Mortimer Abstract—Copyright View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51099 May 2016 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Copyright Infringement in the Market for Digital Images By: Luo, Hong, and Julie Holland... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

Experiments By: Luo, Hong, and Julie Holland Mortimer Abstract—Effective dispute resolution is important for reducing private and social costs. We study how resolution responds to changes in price and communication using a new, extensive dataset of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016

reducing private and social costs. We study how resolution responds to changes in price and communication using a new, extensive dataset of copyright infringement incidences by firms. The data cover two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?

patent provides strong protection. For writers, a complete screenplay would better ensure copyright protection because the plot, dialogue, and characters are much better defined. In addition, “the threat of selling the idea to the buyer’s... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Motion Pictures & Video; Entertainment & Recreation; Banking
  • 02 Feb 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t

copyright infringement and forced the startup out of business. Similarly, taxi companies are now actively lobbying local governments to curtail Uber. “The whole issue of cutting the cord is a huge risk for... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55629 Infringing Use as a Path to Legal Consumption: Evidence from a Field Experiment By: Luo, Hong, and Julie Holland Mortimer Abstract— Copyright View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Aug 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

rapper Dr. Dre and the heavy metal band Metallica sued Napster for copyright infringement late in 1999. But is was unclear how intellectual-property law applied to such an innovation, so Napster's opponents... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar

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