Breaking down this “Math” using 2007 and 2010 US Census data (the most current available)–
They claim that fully 40.5% of per-capita retail sales in the United States comes from copyrights. I’ll let that statistic speak for itself.
2007 Per capita retail sales in the USA is $12,990. The 2010 Census population figure is 308,745,538 total population including children under 5. IIPA says copyright contributes $1,627,000,000,000 to the economy (by the way this figure is like 5-6 times as much as Greece’s TOTAL DEBT- you know, the debt that is large enough to threaten the world financial system?), a per-capita figure of $5,270.
Do you think that, absent copyrights, the per capita retail sales in America would drop by 40%?
“The report was done for the International Intellectual Property Alliance”
This is where I stopped reading. This isn’t reporting, Insurance Journal. This is propoganda. Don’t spread it.
Breaking down this “Math” using 2007 and 2010 US Census data (the most current available)–
They claim that fully 40.5% of per-capita retail sales in the United States comes from copyrights. I’ll let that statistic speak for itself.
2007 Per capita retail sales in the USA is $12,990. The 2010 Census population figure is 308,745,538 total population including children under 5. IIPA says copyright contributes $1,627,000,000,000 to the economy (by the way this figure is like 5-6 times as much as Greece’s TOTAL DEBT- you know, the debt that is large enough to threaten the world financial system?), a per-capita figure of $5,270.
Do you think that, absent copyrights, the per capita retail sales in America would drop by 40%?