Creative Pricing in Markets for Intellectual Property

6 Pages Posted: 16 Jun 2008

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William R. Johnson

University of Virginia - Department of Economics

Abstract

Technological changes over the past two decades have made it easier to distribute and to copy intellectual property. Creators and owners of intellectual property have responded to these changes with a variety of creative pricing strategies. The paper reviews some of these pricing innovations. Two broad categories of innovations are explored: those that facilitate price discrimination and those that exploit complementarities between different types of creative works.

Keywords: Intellectual Property, Creative Pricing

Suggested Citation

Johnson, William R., Creative Pricing in Markets for Intellectual Property. Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 39-44, 2005, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1144884

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