Most cited papers in Copyright and Intellectual Property
What are the most cited papers in Copyright and Intellectual Property?
The most cited paper in Copyright and Intellectual Property is "The Economics Of Compatibility Standards: An Introduction To Recent Research1" (Paul A. David, Shane M. Greenstein, 1990), with 922 citations. Next come "The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis" (883) and "Authors and owners: The invention of copyright" (872).
Showing 50 of 98 papers. Every paper with more than 164 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Economics Of Compatibility Standards: An Introduction To Recent Research1 Paul A. David, Shane M. Greenstein · Economics of Innovation and New Technology | 1990 | 922 |
| 2 | The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis Felix Oberholzer‐Gee, Koleman Strumpf · Journal of Political Economy | Feb 2007 | 883 |
| 3 | Authors and owners: The invention of copyright Scott M. Cutlip · Public Relations Review | 1994 | 872 |
| 4 | Software Piracy: An Analysis of Protection Strategies Kathleen Reavis Conner, Richard P. Rumelt · Management Science | Feb 1991 | 666 |
| 5 | Permission-based mobile advertising Patrick Barwise, Colin Strong · Journal of Interactive Marketing | Feb 2002 | 599 |
| 6 | Private power, public law the globalization of intellectual property rights Susan K. Sell | 2003 | 569 |
| 7 | Spot the difference: consumer responses towards counterfeits Swee Hoon Ang, Peng Sim Cheng, Elison Ai Ching Lim et al. · Journal of Consumer Marketing | Jun 2001 | 544 |
| 8 | Models for Sustainable Open Educational Resources Stephen Downes · Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning | 2007 | 503 |
| 9 | Theories of the Archive from Across the Disciplines Marlene Manoff · portal Libraries and the Academy | 2004 | 484 |
| 10 | Measuring the Effect of File Sharing on Music Purchases Alejandro Zentner · The Journal of Law and Economics | Apr 2006 | 442 |
| 11 | Piracy on the High C’s: Music Downloading, Sales Displacement, and Social Welfare in a Sample of College Students Rafael Rob, Joel Waldfogel · The Journal of Law and Economics | Apr 2006 | 403 |
| 12 | An Introduction to the Law and Economics of Intellectual Property Stanley M. Besen, Leo J. Raskind · The Journal of Economic Perspectives | Feb 1991 | 401 |
| 13 | The Impact of National Culture on Software Piracy Bryan W. Husted · Journal of Business Ethics | Aug 2000 | 390 |
| 14 | Strategic Analysis of the Agency Model for Digital Goods Yinliang Ricky Tan, Janice E. Carrillo · Production and Operations Management | 4 Jul 2016 | 353 |
| 15 | Ethical Decision Making in Software Piracy: Initial Development and Test of a Four-Component Model1 Trevor T. Moores, Chang · MIS Quarterly | Mar 2006 | 343 |
| 16 | Factors that Influence the Intention to Pirate Software and Media Timothy Paul Cronan, Sulaiman Al‐Rafee · Journal of Business Ethics | 27 Mar 2007 | 342 |
| 17 | Buying, Sharing and Renting Information Goods Hal R. Varian · Journal of Industrial Economics | Dec 2000 | 341 |
| 18 | Digital Piracy: Factors that Influence Attitude Toward Behavior Sulaiman Al‐Rafee, Timothy Paul Cronan · Journal of Business Ethics | 9 Jan 2006 | 341 |
| 19 | Theory of Planned Behavior and Ethics Theory in Digital Piracy: An Integrated Model Cheolho Yoon · Journal of Business Ethics | 20 Nov 2010 | 335 |
| 20 | Ideas, Artifacts, and Facilities: Information as a Common-Pool Resource Charlotte Hess, Элинор Остром · Syracuse University Libraries (Syracuse University) | 2003 | 330 |
| 21 | Can Culture Be Copyrighted? Michael F. Brown · Current Anthropology | Apr 1998 | 325 |
| 22 | Explaining Counterfeit Purchases – A Review and Preview Martin Eisend, Pakize Schuchert-Güler | 2006 | 306 |
| 23 | Social Media, Traditional Media, and Music Sales1 Sanjeev Dewan, Jui Ramaprasad · MIS Quarterly | Mar 2014 | 305 |
| 24 | Preventive and Deterrent Controls for Software Piracy Ram D. Gopal, George Lawrence Sanders · Journal of Management Information Systems | Mar 1997 | 295 |
| 25 | The Theory of Domestic Content Protection and Content Preference Gene M. Grossman · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Nov 1981 | 292 |
| 26 | Some Economics of Trade Secret Law David D. Friedman, William M. Landes, Richard A. Posner · The Journal of Economic Perspectives | Feb 1991 | 291 |
| 27 | Internet Exchanges for Used Books: An Empirical Analysis of Product Cannibalization and Welfare Impact Anindya Ghose, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang · Information Systems Research | Mar 2006 | 289 |
| 28 | To Purchase or to Pirate Software: An Empirical Study Hsing Kenneth Cheng, Ronald R. Sims, Hildy J. Teegen · Journal of Management Information Systems | Mar 1997 | 287 |
| 29 | Changing Their Tune: How Consumers’ Adoption of Online Streaming Affects Music Consumption and Discovery Hannes Datta, George Knox, Bart J. Bronnenberg · Marketing Science | 11 Sep 2017 | 283 |
| 30 | Tiered Governance and Demonetization: The Shifting Terms of Labor and Compensation in the Platform Economy Robyn Caplan, Tarleton Gillespie · Social Media + Society | Apr 2020 | 277 |
| 31 | Digital Rights, Digital Citizenship and Digital Literacy: What’s the Difference? Luci Pangrazio, Julian Sefton‐Green · Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research | 2021 | 276 |
| 32 | The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation, and the Law Jonathan Z. Friedman · American Ethnologist | Nov 1999 | 275 |
| 33 | Piracy of digital products: A critical review of the theoretical literature Martin Peitz, Patrick Waelbroeck · Information Economics and Policy | 15 Sep 2006 | 274 |
| 34 | The Antecedents of Music Piracy Attitudes and Intentions Jyh‐Shen Chiou, Chien-yi Huang, Hsin-hui Lee · Journal of Business Ethics | Mar 2005 | 273 |
| 35 | Digital rights management for content distribution Qiong Liu, Reihaneh Safavi–Naini, Nicholas Paul Sheppard | 2003 | 273 |
| 36 | Managing Piracy: Pricing and Sampling Strategies for Digital Experience Goods in Vertically Segmented Markets Ramnath K. Chellappa, Shivendu Shivendu · Information Systems Research | Dec 2005 | 270 |
| 37 | Rethinking the music industry John C. Williamson, Martin Cloonan · Popular Music | 26 Apr 2007 | 258 |
| 38 | The Effect of Digital Sharing Technologies on Music Markets: A Survival Analysis of Albums on Ranking Charts Sudip Bhattacharjee, Ram D. Gopal, Kaveepan Lertwachara et al. · Management Science | Sep 2007 | 258 |
| 39 | International Software Piracy: Analysis of Key Issues and Impacts Ram D. Gopal, George Lawrence Sanders · Information Systems Research | Dec 1998 | 254 |
| 40 | Shared Information Goods Yannis Bakos, Erik Brynjolfsson, Douglas Gary Lichtman · The Journal of Law and Economics | Apr 1999 | 250 |
| 41 | Purchasing pirated software: an initial examination of Chinese consumers Fang Wang, Hongxia Zhang, Hengjia Zang et al. · Journal of Consumer Marketing | Oct 2005 | 250 |
| 42 | THE ART OF UNINFORMED DECISIONS: A PRIMER TO PROPERTY TESTING Eldar Fischer · WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks | Apr 2004 | 250 |
| 43 | Private Broadcasters and the Public Interest: Notes Toward a 'Third Way' Cass Robert Sunstein · SSRN Electronic Journal | 1998 | 247 |
| 44 | Control, curation and musical experience in streaming music services Jeremy Wade Morris, Devon J. Powers · Creative Industries Journal | 3 Jul 2015 | 246 |
| 45 | Copyright, Borrowed Images and Appropriation Art: An Economic Approach William M. Landes · SSRN Electronic Journal | 7 Jul 2005 | 246 |
| 46 | Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity Michael O’Hare · Journal of Cultural Economics | May 2005 | 245 |
| 47 | Why the music industry may gain from free downloading — The role of sampling Martin Peitz, Patrick Waelbroeck · International Journal of Industrial Organization | 15 Dec 2005 | 243 |
| 48 | Contracting into Liability Rules: Intellectual Property Rights and Collective Rights Organizations Robert P. Merges · California Law Review | Oct 1996 | 239 |
| 49 | Supply responses to digital distribution: Recorded music and live performances Julie Holland Mortimer, Chris Nosko, Alan Sorensen · Information Economics and Policy | 8 Feb 2012 | 237 |
| 50 | The Penguin Has Entered the Building: The Commercialization of Open Source Software Products Andréa Fosfuri, Marco S. Giarratana, Alessandra Luzzi · Organization Science | 12 Mar 2008 | 235 |
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