piracy wheresellers can influence the degree of piracy by implementing digitalrights management (DRM) systems. It is shown … that a monopolist’soptimal pricing schedule can be characterized as a simple combination ofthe zero-piracy pricing schedule … and a piracy-indifferent pricingschedule that makes all customers indifferent between legal usage andpiracy. An increase …

The software industry bemoans billions of Euros in damages due to copyright piracy. In connection with this, some … addition, many software manufacturers demand that the existing copyright should be tightened. This is in stark contrast to the … of their software as pirate copies. Hence, the reasons for copyright infringements are to be found in the behaviour of …

incorporate patented technologies, while the specification documents of standards are protected by copyright. This article …

Piracy has been a major problem for perpetually licensed software. Usage-based licensing architecture such as pay …-per-use or software-as-a-service can offer technology-based protection against piracy. We provide an analytical framework to … examine the economic implications of pay-per-use versus perpetual licensing in a market with potential piracy, network effect …

led to online piracy and the emergence of a new class of retailers that specialize in digital downloads. Both online … piracy and digital retailers have changed the dynamics of the information goods distribution channel. In my dissertation I … online piracy. DRM refers to technologies designed to control how end users may access, copy, or convert digital media. In …

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