A property rights view on the impact of file sharing on music business models – why iTunes is a remedy and MusicNet is not

10th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 2496-2506

  von Walter, Benedikt ^a   Hess, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

file sharing; intermediaries; Music business; peer to peer; property rights

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS MODELS; FILE SHARING; FILE-SHARING SYSTEM; INTERMEDIARY; MUSIC BUSINESS; MUSIC FILES; MUSIC INDUSTRY; PEER TO PEER; PROPERTY RIGHT; TRANSACTION COST;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 77950349547     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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