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Protéger les méthodes commerciales liées à Internet : un frein au développement ?
Delzelle, Benoit - EconWPA - 2003
La protection juridique des méthodes commerciales liées à Internet est très controversée. Est-il opportun de protéger des biens immatériels ou des idées ? N'est-ce pas menacer durablement le développement de la "nouvelle économie" ? N'est-ce pas brider l'activité inventive et...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407748
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Do European computer-related patents increase welfare?
Weiss, Pia - EconWPA - 2004
When the home country introduces a patent law after the winner of the patent race is known the country's welfare may … rise only if the domestic firm wins. If the home country decides before the patent race ends, the welfare may be increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556017
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SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF COMBRAINS
DR.VSR.SUBRAMANIAM - EconWPA - 2005
. But the dimension of the Combrain behaviour is wide&cover the whole world with Internet. Even if they are a menace, it … of the Combrain will be to identify,plan&derive implementation methods for Basic Needs;Domestic Investment,Savings,Technology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118844
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Quelques éléments d'économie du logiciel libre
Crémer, Jacques; Gaudeul, Alexandre - EconWPA - 2004
Le terme `logiciel libre' désigne à la fois un bien -- le logiciel -- indispensable au fonctionnement des sociétés modernes informatisées, et un mode de production et de distribution -- libre. Ce mode de production et de distribution est suffisamment original pour poser des problèmes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412903
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Open Source Software Development Patterns and License Terms
Gaudeul, Alexandre - EconWPA - 2004
This paper examines the choice of license terms along the development of a piece of software. Three licenses are compared, the proprietary one, the Berkeley Software Distribution, and the General Public License. The choice of one or the other license depends on the characteristics of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412979
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Reciprocity in the FTAA: The Roles of Market Access, Institutions and Negotiating Capacity
Nogues, Julio J. - EconWPA - 2005
Latin America will support the FTAA if it sees this project as a way of creating the conditions for improved growth performance and declining poverty. In searching for these objectives with effectiveness, this paper calls attention to some of the conditions that are necessary in order for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062629
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Managing Digital Piracy: Pricing, Protection and Welfare
Sundararajan, Arun - EconWPA - 2003
technology-based protection against piracy is shown to be the technologically-maximal level, which maximizes the difference … them to choose a strictly lower level of technology-based protection. Moreover, if a DRM system weakens over time, due to … its technology being progressively hacked, the optimal strategic response may involve either increasing or decreasing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561013
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The LaTeX project: A case study of open source software
Gaudeul, Alex - EconWPA - 2004
license and has become a reference in scientific publishing. TeX is now used to typeset and publish much of the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561394
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Argentina
Nogues, Julio J. - EconWPA - 2005
After decades of being a marginal player in the GATT trade negotiations, Argentina decided to participate actively in the Uruguay Round. This chapter measures the imbalance between the concessions given and received and concludes that the value of the first are far more important than the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119329
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VIOLACIÓN A LOS DERECHOS DE PROPIEDAD INTELECTUAL: LA INCIDENCIA DEL INGRESO, LA CULTURA, LA EDUCACIÓN, LAS ORGANIZACIONES, LAS INSTITUCIONES Y LA INNOVACIÓN EN LA PIRATERÍA DE SOFTWARE
Marquez, Pablo - EconWPA - 2005
culture, institutions and technology matter in the development of IPR protection policy even more than traditional variables …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126044