In this proposal of a research agenda for cultural economics, I discuss the supply-side economics of the next wave of digital technological change.I begin by arguing that digitization and internet-enabled platforms, together with automated licensing of user-generated content has substantially...

Intellectual property rights are fundamental to how economies organize innovation and steer the diffusion of knowledge. Copyright law, in particular, has developed constantly to keep up with emerging technologies and the interests of creators, consumers, and intermediaries of the different...

We examine how the adoption of digital automation technology affects labor demand, operations and profitability in the context of the logistics industry. Our data covers 9,300 digital automation projects in a multinational company involving service robots and machine learning-based software from...