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The Competitive Market Value of Copyright in Music: A Digital Gordian Knot (The Working Paper Version – v2)

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Pricing copyrighted works or assets so that creators are competitively compensated has always been a difficult task given the information good character of such works. Doing it in the digital era is even more challenging. I consider Hertzian radio, satellite radio, and interactive music streaming services and I argue that annual competitive royalties in Hertzian radio should be increased from $100 million to $450 million. I further argue that this gap should not be filled by primary users alone but by a broader set of beneficiaries, including the general public and their government. La tarification des œuvres protégées par le droit d'auteur assurant aux créateurs une rémunération concurrentielle a toujours été une tâche difficile étant donné le caractère biens d’information de ces œuvres. Le faire à l'ère du numérique est encore plus difficile. Je considère la radio hertzienne, la radio par satellite, et les services de musique interactive et je prétends que les royautés dans la radio hertzienne devraient être augmentées de $100 à $450 million. Je prétends en outre que cet écart devrait être comblé non pas uniquement par les utilisateurs primaires, mais par un ensemble plus large de bénéficiaires, y compris le grand public et leur gouvernement.

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  • Marcel Boyer, 2018. "The Competitive Market Value of Copyright in Music: A Digital Gordian Knot (The Working Paper Version – v2)," CIRANO Working Papers 2018s-30, CIRANO.
  • Handle: RePEc:cir:cirwor:2018s-30
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    1. Marcel Boyer, 2015. "The Value of Copyrights in Recorded Music: Terrestrial Radio and Beyond," C.D. Howe Institute Commentary, C.D. Howe Institute, issue 419, February.
    2. Paul Audley & Marcel Boyer, 2007. "The “Competitive” Value of Music to Commercial Radio Stations," CIRANO Working Papers 2007s-30, CIRANO.
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    1. Marcel Boyer, 2018. "The Three-Legged Stool of Value of Copyrighted Music: Hertzian Radio, SiriusXM, and Spotify (The Working Paper Version – v2)," CIRANO Working Papers 2018s-32, CIRANO.

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    Keywords

    Copyrights; Hertzian radio; SiriusXM; Music streaming services; Pandora; Spotify; Droits d'auteur; radio hertzienne; SiriusXM; services de musique en ligne; Pandora; Spotify;
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    JEL classification:

    • D23 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
    • L38 - Industrial Organization - - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise - - - Public Policy
    • O34 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital
    • Z11 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economics of the Arts and Literature

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