This paper studies the impact of software piracy in a two-sidedmarket setting. Software platforms attract developers … higher with more software protection but the impact on user prices is ambiguous. A conflict between platforms and software … developers over software protection may arise: whereas one side benefits from better protection, the other party loses out. Under …

In the wake of a series of court cases extending patents to software, open-source software proponents have proposed a … number of arguments for limiting or even eliminating software patents. In particular, they claim that the U.S. Patent and … Trademark Office has done a poor job of reviewing software patent applications, resulting in obvious, trivial patents. They also …

There is considerable debate regarding the use of intellectual property rights (IPR) to spur innovation in the software … developing a growth optimal mixture of open source and closed source software. This optimal scenario is then used as a basis to … examine the co-existence of open and closed source software within various institutional frameworks ranging from no protection …

technology. Using free and open source software as an example, we develop a model where this phenomenon is confronted with …

For a decade, economists have been fascinated by the phenomenon of open source software (OSS). OSS is marked by free … access to the software and its source code. It is developed in a public, collaborative manner by thousands of non … property paradigm. This paper provides an introduction into the topic OSS versus closed source software (CSS, also called …

We consider a firm A initially owning a software platform (e.g. operating system) and an application for this platform … against expropriation of rents. The different pieces of software are considered as assets in the sense of the property rights … firms invest in physical (and not in human) capital and that there is non-rivalry in consumption for software. -- Platforms …

So-called open source software (OSS) is marked by free access to the software and its source code. Copyright-based OSS … licenses permit users to use, change, improve and redistribute the software, which is designed and developed in a public …

The aim of this paper is to focus on the emerging situation in which open source software is nowadays produced not only …

This dissertation investigates how IPR enforcement by proprietary incumbents influences open source software (OSS … related to a software segment will facilitate OSS start-up entry into the same segment; this marginal effect is especially …