SOURCES OF INFORMATION ON PIRACY

ORGANISATIONS FIGHTING PIRACY AT THE INTERNATIONAL LEVEL

IFPI - The website of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry propose an Anti-Piracy section (with news, reports,...). On commercial pirac, see IFPI, Commercial Piracy Report 2003.

IIPA - The International Intellectual Property Association is a private sector coalition formed in 1984 to represent the U.S. copyright-based industries in bilateral and multilateral efforts to improve international protection of copyrighted materials. IIPA is comprised of six trade associations, each representing a significant segment of the U.S. copyright community. The website published reports on a country by country basis.

MPAA - The website of the Motion Pictures Association of America includes report on piracy in various countries in the world.

Business Software Alliance - BSA is the voice of the world's commercial software industry and its hardware partners before governments and in the international marketplace. 

AEPOC - Association européenne pour la protection des oeuvres et services cryptés or the European Association for the Protection of Encrypted Works and Service - Its members include 31 of the major players in the European digital television and telecommunications sector. In particular, AEPOC brings together and represents operators in 4 entrepreneurial sectors: Television Channels, Suppliers of Conditional Access Technology, Supplies of Transmission Infrastructures and Producers of Hardware.

ORGANISATIONS FIGHTING PIRACY AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL IN EUROPE

AT - Austria : VAP - Verein für Anti-Piraterie der Film- und Videobranche

BE - Belgium : BAF

CH - Switzerland - Safe - Schweizerische Vereinigung zur Bekämpfung der Piraterie - Association suisse pour la lutte contre le piratage

CY - Cyprus : CYFACT

DE - Germany : GVU - Gesellschaft zur Verfolgung von Urheberrechtsverletzungen eV

DK - Denmark : APG - AntiPiratgruppen

EE - Estonia : CIPR - The Coaltition for Intellectual Property Rights

ES - FAP - Federación Antipiratería

FI - Finland : CIAPC - Anti-Piracy Centre in Finland

FR - France : ALPA - Association de lutte contre la piraterie audiovisuelle

GB - United Kingdom : FACT - Federation Against Copyright Theft

GB - United Kingdom : IEG - Internet Enforcement Group

GB - United Kingdom - Alliance against Counterfeiting and Piracy

IE - Ireland - INFACT

IT - Italy : FAPAV - Federazione Anti-Pirateria Audiovisiva

LT - Lithuania : CIPR - The Coaltition for Intellectual Property Rights

LV - latvia :CIPR - The Coaltition for Intellectual Property Rights

MT - Malta - AACT - Association against Copyright Theft

NL - The Netherlands - BREIN - Bescherming Rechten Entertainment Industrie Nederland

PL - Poland - ZWAP - Zwiazek Producentów Audio-Video

PL - Poland - FOTA

RU - Russia and CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) : CIPR - The Coaltition for Intellectual Property Rights

RU - Russia : RAPO : Russia Anti-Piracy Organization

SI - Slovenia - APAW -Association for Protection of Audio-visual Works 

TR - Turkey : AMPEC

REPORT AND STUDIES OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL DIMENSION OF PEER-TO-PEER

TOP	General approach

• E. ADAR and B.A. HUBERMAN, "Free Riding on Gnutella", First Monday, volume 5, number 10 (October 2000)
• Y. BAKOS, E. BRYNJOLFSSON, D. LICHTMAN, "Shared Information Goods", Journal of law and Economics, vol. 42, n°117.
• P. BIDDLE, P. ENGLAND, M. PEINADO and B. WILMAN (Microsoft Corporation), The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution, 2002
• O. BOMSEL et G. LE BLANC, "Economie de la numérisation des biens culturels - Présentation de la recherche Contango", à paraître dans Les dossiers de l'audiovisuel, Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, 2004. O. BOMSEL, avec la collaboration de J. CHARBONNEL, G. LE BLANC, A. ZAKARIA, "Enjeux économiques de la distribution des contenus", CERNA, Paris, 2004
• O. BOMSEL et G. LE BLANC, Note de Travail : "Distribution de contenus sur Internet - Analyse économique des remèdes au contournement des droits de propriété intellectuelle", CERNA, Paris, 8 Mars 2004 .
• M. FELDMAN, K. LAI, J. CHUANG, I. STOICA, "Quantifying Disincentives in Peer-to-Peer Networks", Working Paper, U.C. Berkelye, 2003.
• W.W. FISHER, Promises to Keep Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment, (forthcoming, Stanford University Press, 2004)
• GartnerG2 and The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, "Copyright and Digital Media in a Post-Napster World," 8/2003.
• M. GENSOLLEN, L. GILLE, M. BOURREAU, N. CURIEN, , Distribution de contenus sur Internet : commentaire sur le projet de taxation de l'Upload, Fondation internet nouvelle génération, mai 2004.
• M. GENSOLLEN, "Biens informationnels et communautés médiatisées", Revue d'Economie politique, numéro "Marchés en ligne et communautés d'agents", mars 2004.
• L. LESSIG, Free Culture, The Penguin Press, 2004.
• L. LESSIG, The Future of Ideas, Random House, 2001.
• L. MICHAUD, Tirer profit du peer-to-peer. Quels enjeux pour l'industrie du contenu ?, IDATE, Montpellier, 2003.
• Y. NICOLAS, "Le téléchargement sur les réseaux de pair à pair", Développement culturel, Ministère de la Culture, n°148, Paris, juin 2005.
• M. PEITZ and P. WAELBROECK, "Piracy of Digital Products: A Critical Review of the Economics Literature", CESifo Working paper, Series N°1071.
• Y. PHILIPPIN, "A quoi sert vraiment le peer-to-peer ?", Fondation Internet Nouvelle génération, Septembre 2003.
• L. STRAHILEVITZ, "Charismatic Code, Social Norms, and the Emergence of Cooperation on the File-Swapping Networks", Virginia Law Review, vol. 89.
• J.S. SVENSON and F. BANNISTER, "Pirats, sharks and moral cruisaders: Social control in peer-to-peer networks", First Monday, June 2004.
• J. TIROLE, C. HENRY, M. TROMPETTER, L. TUBIANA, B. CAILLAUD, "Propriété intellectuelle", Conseil d'analyse économique, rapport 41, juillet 2003.

TOP	Music industry

• E. BOORSTIN, Music Sales in the Age of File Sharing, Thesis, Princeton, April 2004.
• ENDERS ANALYSIS, "Piracy. Will it kill the music industry?", March 2003.
• M. FINE, "SoundScan Study on Naptser Use and Loss of Sales", Report of the CEO of SoundScan, engaged by the plaintifs in the action, A&M Records, Inc. et al. v. Napster, Inc.
• FORRESTER, Europe's Music Download Sites Rush To Beat iTunes, January 2004.
• FORRESTER, 2004 Music Forecast, January 2004.
• FORRESTER, The Digital Music Consumer: 2003, December 2003.
• FORRESTER, Apple iTunes Jump-Starts Windows Digital Music, October 2003.
• FORRESTER, From Discs To Downloads, August 2003.
• FORRESTER, Can Young File Sharers Be Stopped? Yes!, July 2003.
• FORRESTER, Downloads: 13% Of Europe's Music Market In 2007, May 2003.
• FORRESTER, Downloading Music Hurts Europe's CD Sales, January 2003.
• FORRESTER, My View: Digital Denial. Digital will transform the music and film industries -- whether they like it or not, December 2002.
• FORRESTER, Europe: 2 Billion Music Downloads Per Year, September 2002.
• FORRESTER, Downloads Save The Music Business, August 2002.
• K.-L. HUI and I. PNG, "Piracy and the Legitimate Demand for Recorded Music", Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy, vol.2, iss;1, 2003.
• IPSOS-REID, MP3 Downloading By Canadians On The Decrease, May 2004.
• IPSOS-REID, Number of Paying Downloaders Nearly Triples in 2003, March 2004.
• IPSOS-REID, Consumers Expect Substantial Savings On Digitally Distributed Albums, December 2003.
• IPSOS-REID, Legal Issues Don't Hinder American Downloaders, March 2003.
• IPSOS-REID, File-Sharing And CD Burning Remain Steady In 2002: Ipsos, February 2003.
• IPSOS-REID, Americans Continue To Embrace Potential Of Digital Music, December 2002.
• IPSOS-REID, U.S. Music Downloaders Prefer A Pay-Per-Download Transaction Over Current Subscription-Based Offerings, September 2002.
• IPSOS-REID, File Sharing And CD Burners Proliferate, June 2002.
• IPSOS-REID, Music Doawnloading Goes Global, December 2000.
• JUPITER RESEARCH, Various reports on Music and file-sharing
• J. HOWES, "BigChampagne is watching You", Wired, October 2003.
• IFPI, Online Music Report, IFPI, January 2004.
• J. LANDEGREN and P. LIU, Usability Factors in Music Distribution Services and their Relationships with established and New Values Chains in the Music Industry, A Masterís Thesis in Media Technology and Graphic Arts Department of Numerical Analysis
  and Computer Science Royal Institute of Technology .
• S. LIEBOWITZ, "Will MP3 downloads Annihilate the Record Industry? The Evidence so Far" Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth, edited by Gary Libecap, JAI Press, 2003.
• L. MOLTENI, A. ORDANINI, "Consumption Patterns, Digital technology and Music downloading", Long Range Planning, n°36, pp.389-406.
• "On-line activities and pursuits", Pew Internet & American Life Project, April 2004.
• F.OBERHOLZER, K. STRUMPF, "The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales - An Empirical Analysis", March 2004.
  M. PEITZ and P. WAELBROECK, "The Effect of Internet Piracy on CD sales: Cross-Section Evidence", CESifo Working Papers, Series, n°1122.

TOP

Film

• CNC, La piraterie de films : Motivations et pratiques des Internautes, Analyse qualitative, CNC, Mai 2004.
• CNC, Le téléchargement de films sur Internet, Analyse quantitative, CNC, Mai 2004.
• Facing Piracy Digital Theft in the Filmed Entertainment Industry, Report released by the Pacific Southwest Media & Entertainment Group.
• S. BYERS, L. CRANOR, E. CRONIN, D. KORMANN and P. McDANIEL, Analysis of Security Vulnerabilities in the Movie Production and Distribution Process, AT&T Labs, 2003.
• FDA, Downloading dangers
• FFA, Studie zum Kopieren und Downloaden von Spielfilmen, FFA, November 2003.
• FFA, Brennerstudie 2005 - Kopieren und Downloaden von Spiel-/Kinofilmen, FFA/GFK Panel Services Deutschland, Januar 2006
• B. GUILLOU, La distribution des films en ligne, Etude réalisée pour l'Observatoire européen de l'audiovisuel, Mai 2004.
  
• V. HENNING, D. SCHODER, An Empirical Study on the Effects of Peer-to-Peer Filesharing on the Film Industry, Bauhaus-University of Weimar, University of Cologne, August 2004.
• INFORMA MEDIA, Films on the Internet, November 2003.
• IPSOS-READ, Downloaders Expanding To Motion Pictures And Music Videos, April 2004.
• UK Film Council, "Film Theft in UK", London, 2005.
• "Worldwide Internet Piracy Study", Prepared by OTX in consultation with the Motion Picture Association, 2004 .