Piracy and Intellectual Property

Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., Lertchwara, K., and Marsden, J., “Impact of Legal Threats on Individual Behavior: An Analysis of Music Industry Actions and Online Music Sharing,” Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 91-114, April 2006. [Abstract]

Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., Lertchwara, K., and Marsden, J., “Consumer Search and Retailer Strategies in the Presence of  Online Music Sharing,” Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp.129-159, 2006.

Gopal, R. D., Bhattacharjee, S., and Sanders, G. L., “Do Artists Benefit from Online Music Sharing?Journal of Business, Vol. 79, No. 3, pp. 1503-1534, May 2006.

Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., Lertchwara, K., and Marsden, J., “Whatever Happened To Payola? An Empirical Analysis Of Online Music Sharing?” forthcoming in  Decision Support Systems. [pdf ]

Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., Marsden, J., and Telang, R., “The Effect of Digital Sharing Technologies on Music Markets: A Survival Analysis of Albums on Ranking Charts,” Working Paper. [pdf]

Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., Lertchwara, K., and Marsden, J., “Stochastic Dynamics of Music Album Lifecycle: An Analysis of the New Music Landscape,” Working Paper.[pdf]

Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., Lertchwara, K., and Marsden, J., “Using P2P Sharing Activity to Improve Business Decision Making: Proof of Concept for Estimating Product Life-Cycle,” Electronic Commerce Research and Applications , Vol. 4, Issue 1, Pages 14-20, Spring 2005. [Abstract]

Gopal, R. D., Sanders, G. L., Bhattacharjee, S., Agrawal, M., and Wagner, S. C., “A Behavioral Model of Digital Music Piracy,” Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Vol. 14, No. 2, Pages 89-105, 2004. [Abstract

Seung K. S., Gopal, R. D., Sanders, G. L., and Whinston, A. B., “Global Software Piracy Revisited: Beyond Economics,” Communications of the ACM, pp. 103-107, Vol. 47, No. 1, January 2004.

Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., and Sanders, G. L., “Digital Music And Online Sharing: Software Piracy 2.0?Communications of the ACM., pp. 107-111, Vol. 46, No. 7, July 2003.

Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., Lertchwara, K., and Marsden, J., “No More Shadow Boxing with Online Music Piracy: Strategic Business Models to Enhance Revenues,” Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on Systems and Sciences, Hawaii, January 2003.

Gopal, R., and Gupta, A., “Trading Higher Software Piracy for Higher Profits: The Case of Phantom Piracy,” Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on Systems and Sciences, Hawaii, January 2002.

Gopal, R. D., and Sanders, G. L., “Global Software Piracy: You Can't Get Blood Out of Turnip,” Communications of the ACM, pp. 82-89, Vol. 43, No. 9, September 2000.

Gopal, R. D. and Sanders, G. L., “International Software Piracy: Analysis of Key Issues and Impacts,” Information Systems Research, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 380-397, 1998.

Gopal, R. D., and Sanders, G. L., “Preventive and Deterrent Controls for Software Piracy,” Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 13, No. 44, pp. 29-48, 1997. 

Gopal, R. D., and Sanders, G. L., “The Effect of Preventive and Deterrent Software Piracy Strategies on Producer Profits,” Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual International Conference on Information Systems, pp. 161-170, 1992.