File sharing: Creative destruction or just plain destruction?

Journal of Law and Economics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-28

  Liebowitz, Stan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

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EID: 33745830521     PISSN: 00222186     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/503518     Document Type: Article

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