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Of Price Discriminiation, Rootkits and Flatrates
Grassmuck, Volker - 2006
For digital information goods, economic logic seems to demand price discrimination which in turn seems to demand an implementation in the form of Digital Rights Management (DRM). The article critiques this attitude, using the recent Sony BMG rootkit case as an example. It tries to break through...
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Digitale Musik - Eine industrieökonomische Analyse der Musikindustrie
Raschka, Oliver D. - 2006
Die Arbeit hat zum Ziel, ein grundlegendes ökonomisches Verständnis für die Struktur und Funktionsweise des Musikmarktes zu vermitteln, der sich aktuell in einer Umbruchphase befindet. Systematische industrieökonomische Analysen, die den Einfluss digitaler Technologien auf die Musikindustrie...
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Missbrauch und Schutz von Software - Eine theoretische und empirische Untersuchung aus Sicht der Neuen Institutionen?konomik
Keller, Joachim Martin - 2008
Die Softwarebranche beklagt sich ?ber durch Raubkopien verursachte Sch?den in H?he von mehreren Miliarden Euro. In diesem Zusammenhang wird oft die Forderung laut, das Internet m?sse besser ?berwacht werden, um die zunehmende Verbreitung von Raubkopien einzud?mmen. Erg?nzend verlangen viele...
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An Empirical Analysis of Development Processes for Anticipatory Standards
Mitra, Prasenjit; Purao, Sandeep; Bagby, John W.; … - Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University; … - 2005
There is an evolution in the process used by standards-developmentorganizations (SDOs) and this is changing the prevailing standardsdevelopment activity (SDA) for information and communications technology(ICT). The process is progressing from traditional SDA modes, typicallyinvolving the...
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Intellectual Property Rights and Their Impacts in Developing Countries: An Empirical Analysis of Maize Breeding in Mexico
Leger, Andreanne - 2005
theory on IPR and a short background on the Mexican maize breeding industry. The analysis of the interviews with maize … breeders leads to the conclusion that the theory on IPR should be revised and take into account the characteristics of …
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GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROP INNOVATIONS AND PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION: TRADE AND WELFARE EFFECTS IN THE SOYBEAN COMPLEX
Sobolevsky, Andrei; Moschini, GianCarlo; Lapan, Harvey E. - 2002
We develop a new partial equilibrium, four-region world trade model for the soybean complex comprising soybeans … Rest of the World all gain from the introduction of RR soybeans, although some groups of agents (producers or consumers …) may lose. Compared to free trade with no domestic bans, a ban on RR production in the Rest of the World improves that …
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Impact of Foreign Intellectual Property Rights Protection on U.S. Exports and FDI
Gu, Weishi - 2009
This version of the paper is subject to changes.
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Intellectual Property Rights and Crop-Improving R&D under Adaptive Destruction
Yerokhin, Oleg; Moschini, GianCarlo - 2007
This paper studies how the strength of intellectual property rights (IPRs) affects investments in biological innovations when the value of an innovation is stochastically reduced to zero because of the evolution of pest resistance. We frame the problem as a research and development (R&D)...
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The Economics of Generating and Maintaining Plant Variety Rights in China
Koo, Bonwoo; Pardey, Philip G.; Qian, Keming; Zhang, Yi - 2003
Notwithstanding the ambiguous research and productivity promoting effects of plant varietyprotections (PVPs), even in developed countries, many developing countries have adoptedPVPs in the past few years to comply with their Trade-Related Aspects of IntellectualProperty Rights (TRIPS)...
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PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS IN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH: AN ANALYSIS OF CHALLENGES FACING INDUSTRY AND THE CONSULTATIVE GROUP ON INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH
Spielman, David J.; von Grebmer, Klaus - 2004
Public-private partnerships offer potentially important opportunities for pro-pooragricultural research in developing countries. Yet in the international agricultural researchcommunity--and with regard to the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research(CGIAR) itself--we see few...
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