Don't think twice, it's all right: Music piracy and pricing in a DRM-free environment

Journal of Marketing

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 40-54

  Sinha, Rajiv K ^b   Machado, Fernando S ^b   Sellman, Collin ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PORTUGAL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Digital rights management; Intellectual property; Online music; Piracy; Welfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949505239     PISSN: 00222429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1509/jmkg.74.2.40     Document Type: Article

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