A new study, written by Glynn S. Lunney, Professor of Law at the Tulane University School of Law in New Orleans, shows that « concludes that file sharing has not reduced the creation of new original music. It may have led to fewer works as a result of fewer new artists entering the field, but it was also associated with an increase in output by those artists who chose, despite the lower returns, to devote their talents to making music. Given that file sharing undeniably promotes the broad dissemination of existing works, this conclusion suggests that file sharing is both fully consonant with copyright’s constitutionally-delimited purposes and welfare enhancing. »
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140103/08105125759/study-file-sharing-has-not-led-to-less-new-original-music-being-created.shtml