Computer & Communication Industry Association

Digital Video Piracy Impacts on Sales Overestimated in Key Report

A single paper on digital video copyright infringement has been central to many aggressive claims about the impact of digital piracy to the U.S. film and television industries. This report evaluates the methodological choices made in that paper and shows how they biased the paper's estimates several times higher than is plausible. The aggregate net impact of piracy on sales is difficult to distinguish from zero in the literature.

Research

Fair Use in the U.S. Economy – 2025 Edition

A range of exceptions to copyright protection under U.S. law, classified here under the broad heading of fair use, sustain companies that represent nearly one-fifth of total U.S. GDP. This study fi...

    Copyright
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2025 Survey of Product Impact in the Connected Economy: Artificial Intelligence

The CCIA Research Center's 2025 Survey of Product Impact in the Connected Economy: Artificial Intelligence finds that generative AI is the most rapidly adopted general purpose technology in history...

  • Digital Economy
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UK Live Streaming Survey Results

A new survey of UK residents finds that livestreaming has become one of the UK’s most valued and socially engaging forms of digital media, worth more than £17 billion (US$23 billion) annually to...

    Emerging Technology
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The Combined Impact of Statutory Damages and Secondary Liability in the U.S. Copyright Regime Under the Fourth Circuit Standard

Two aspects of U.S. federal copyright law combine to create disproportionately large awards in recent infringement cases, with no relationship to any actual harms: (a) plaintiffs’ ability to obta...

  • Copyright