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Piracy of Digital ContentResponding to concerns in governments and the business community, the OECD launched a project in 2005 to assess the magnitude and impact of counterfeiting and piracy. The objective of the project was to improve factual understanding and awareness of how large the problem is and the effects that infringements of intellectual property rights have on governments, business and consumers around the world.
This book reports on Phase II of this project and studies digital piracy, i.e. the infringement of copyrighted content (such as music, films, software, broadcasting, books, etc.) where the end product does not involve the use of hard media, such as CDs and DVDs. It presents the unique economic properties of markets for pirated digital products, where the existence of a large number of suppliers willing to provide pirated content at virtually no cost poses new and difficult challenges to copyright owners and policy makers in combating that piracy. These economic features, together with rapid technological developments, create special and unique problems for policy makers and the large number of actors involved in different jurisdictions. This book also provides an illustrative, in-depth case study of the sports rights owners sector, highlighting how it is affected by digital piracy.
For more information about OECD work on counterfeiting and piracy, see www.oecd.org/sti/counterfeiting.
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FOREWORD 3
PIRACY OF DIGITAL CONTENT ISBN 978-92-64-06450-8 OECD 2009
Foreword
This study covers the piracy of content, such as music, films and software that does not involve the use of physical media; in other words it essentially deals with piracy over the Internet. This represents Phase II of a three-phase project examining the Economic Impacts of Counterfeiting and Piracy (www.oecd.org/sti/counterfeiting). Phase I covered counterfeiting and piracy resulting in the production of tangible goods, while Phase III will cover other forms of counterfeiting.
The study was prepared by the Structural Policy Division of the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry. The main study was prepared by Piotr Stryszowski, while the case study was prepared by Danny Scorpecci. The study was carried out under the guidance of an informal expert advisory group composed of OECD member governments and industry representatives, and the study team wishes to acknowledge the valuable assistance provided by the advisory group.
The study was presented to the OECD Committee on Industry, Innova-tion and Entrepreneurship, which agreed to its public release. This study was also presented to the OECD Information, Computer and Communications Policy Committee and benefited from this committees comments. The study was undertaken with the support of governments and industry associa-tions, and the authors express their gratitude for the inputs provided.
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Table of Contents
Executive Summary .................................................................................................. 7
Introduction ................................................................................................