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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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On the Supply of Creative Work: Evidence from the Movies

Hui, Kai-Lung; Png, Ivan P.L. - EconWPA - 2002

particularly, we also study the impact of a 1998 increase in the term of copyright on U.S. movie production. …

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Economists’ Topsy-Turvy View of Piracy

Liebowitz, Stan - EconWPA - 2005

Although it was once considered inevitable that unauthorized copying would harm copyright owners, it is now understood … too far, seeing gains to the copyright owners from unauthorized copying in every nook and cranny of the economy, when in …

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

Gaudeul, Alex - EconWPA - 2005

consumption by using copyright law or technological restraints. Licensing the software under proprietary license terms makes of it …

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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOFTWARE PROTECTION AND PIRACY: EVIDENCE FROM EUROPE

ANDRES, ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ - EconWPA - 2004

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A TRAGEDY OF THE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE ‘COMMONS’? Global Science, Intellectual Property and the Digital Technology Boomerang

David, Paul A. - EconWPA - 2005

intellectual property rights protection. Focusing upon innovations in copyright law and the sui generis protection of hitherto …

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The Digital Technology Boomerang: New Intellectual Property Rights Threaten Global “Open Science”

David, Paul A. - EconWPA - 2005

property rights protection. Focusing upon innovations in copyright law and the sui generis protection of hitherto unprotected …

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The Economics of Open Source Hijacking and Declining Quality of Digital Information Resources: A Case for Copyleft

Ciffolilli, Andrea - EconWPA - 2004

and distribution. Solutions to the appropriation issue, such as copyright, are supposed to guarantee an incentive for … conventional inefficiencies, copyright shows an extra vice since it might be used perversely as a tool to hijack and privatise … the paradigm of copyright customisation. …

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