[p2p-research] Harvard Study Shows Loose Copyright is a Good Thing

[Michel Bauwens]

Hi Tomas,

as i'm going on a trip, any chance you could report on this with some extra
comments?

james burke can give you blog access if you haven't yet ..

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Tomas Rawlings <tom at fluffylogic.net> wrote:

> Lots of people have been saying this for years - now the the economists are
> proving it;
>
> "Economists Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf have just released a
> new Harvard Business School working paper called File Sharing and Copyright
> that raises some important points about file sharing, copyright, and the net
> benefits to society."
>
> This study are tackles a number of myths about p2p and file sharing such as
> that a download does not equal a lost sales (also noted here), that more
> music and films than ever before have been created.  Worth a read.
> http://plugincinema.com/plugin/content/view/1882/1/
>
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