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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...

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MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR:NIGERIA

NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005

GOOD HEALTH IS A CRUCIAL PART OF WELL-BEING BUT SPENDING ON HEALTH CAN BE JUSTIFIED ON ECONOMIC GROUNDS. THE GOAL OF … REDUCING POVERTY PROVIDES A DIFFERENT BUT EQUALLY POWERFUL CASE FOR HEALTH INVESTMENTS. HOWEVER, IF POLICYMAKERS ARE TO … ACCELERATE THE SUBSTANTIAL HEALTH GAINS OF RECENT DECADES, ESPECIALLY FOR THE POOR IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES SUCH AS NIGERIA, THE …

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Managing Digital Piracy: Pricing, Protection and Welfare

Sundararajan, Arun - EconWPA - 2003

This paper analyzes the optimal choice of pricing schedules and technological deterrence levels in a market with digital piracy, when legal sellers can sometimes control the extent of piracy by implementing digital rights management (DRM) systems. It is shown that the seller's optimal pricing...

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The LaTeX project: A case study of open source software

Gaudeul, Alex - EconWPA - 2004

The TeX typesetting software was developed by Donald E. Knuth in the late 1970s. It was released with an open source license and has become a reference in scientific publishing. TeX is now used to typeset and publish much of the world’s scientific literature in physics and mathematics. This...

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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 SOF...

Marquez, Pablo - EconWPA - 2005

The target of this paper is to question the causes of software intellectual property rights violation. To solve this question, the author analyses how has evolved the economic literature of IPR violation showing that the traditional market variables do not fulfill the requirements to explain the...

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VIOLACIÓN A LOS DERECHOS DE PROPIEDAD INTELECTUAL EN AMERICA

Márquez-Escobar, Pablo - EconWPA - 2004

The violation of intellectual property rights (IPR) is a transnational economic and legal problem. This problem could have a solution path when we solve the question: ¿why there is violation of IPR? The main target of this paper is to solve the last question applied to IPR in Latin- America. In...

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Public provision of a private good: What is the point of the BSD license?

Gaudeul, Alex - EconWPA - 2005

Software is a potentially excludable public good. It is possible, at some cost, to exclude non-paying users from its consumption by using copyright law or technological restraints. Licensing the software under proprietary license terms makes of it a private good, licensing it under the BSD does...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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