Exclusion, Competition and Change: The Shifting Boundaries of the Television Market

20 Pages Posted: 1 Sep 2008 Last revised: 1 Mar 2015

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Giovanni Battista Ramello

University of Piemonte Orientale - A. Avogadro - Department of Public Policy and Public Choice; International Centre for Economic Research (ICER)

Francesco Silva

Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca - Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Economics, Psychology & Social Sciences (CISEPS)

Date Written: August, 28 2008

Abstract

The aim of this work is to analyse the evolution of pay-TV as an example of the dynamics that characterise the media sector and in which copyright has played a pivotal role. In one simplified representation, we can identify two crucial levels on which the market is shaped: that of content, governed by copyright, and that of distribution. Control over each of these levels offers, in different ways, leverage for orienting the market, and has thus been an object of the strategies of firms. On the whole we can say that the innovation path characterising media markets extends beyond the purely technological sphere to also embrace the market as an "organisational technology" for production and exchange. Hence, the competitive process, so important for defining the market configurations, must be discussed from an intertemporal perspective in which technological choices, the regulatory framework and control of copyrights can be viewed as both exogenous and strategic variables manipulated by firms to obtain profits.

Keywords: television, competition, exclusion

JEL Classification: L82

Suggested Citation

Ramello, Giovanni Battista and Silva, Francesco, Exclusion, Competition and Change: The Shifting Boundaries of the Television Market (August, 28 2008). Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 55-74, 2008, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1260505

Giovanni Battista Ramello (Contact Author)

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Francesco Silva

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Milano, 20126
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