1st Edition

Empirical Evidence for Policy in Telecommunication, Copyright & Broadcasting

By Joost Poort Copyright 2015
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

This dissertation contains nine articles with an empirical focus in copyright, telecommunication, and broadcasting and investigates the role and impact of economic evidence for policymaking in the field of information law.

1 Introduction, 2 Universal service and disabled people, 3 Digital fixation: The law and economics of a fixed e-book price, 4 Legal, economic and cultural aspects of file sharing, 5 Elvis is returning to the building: Understanding a decline in unauthorized file sharing, 6 Baywatch: Two approaches to measure the effects of blocking access to The Pirate Bay, 7 Perspectives of creators and performers on the digital era, 8 Valuing commercial radio licenses, 9 Setting licence fees for renewing telecommunication spectrum based on an auction, 10 Measuring the welfare effects of public television, 11 Synthesis: The role of economic evidence

Biography

Joost J. Poort