guarantee through copyright an adequate (and not exaggerate) software legal protection …’s Theorem without paying royalties, but rather if software and algorithms underlying the software are patentable. Although … software is based on algorithms similar to the algorithm discovered by Euclid, in the United States software are generally …

To distribute software, commercial vendors of proprietary software have the opportunity to use some dual licensing (DL …) strategy i.e. to provide their software under two different licensing terms (proprietary and open source). We investigate the … welfare. We show that dual licensing may be used as a complement for proprietary software when development spillovers are …

existing examples of collaborative licensing models. Those models are examined from a theoretical perspective and tested in a …

Free/Open Source Software (FOSS). In a seminal paper Bessen and Maskin (2006) argue that in a dynamic sequential innovation … same conditions, a copyright strategy could result in a tragedy of the anticommons (Heller 1998, Buchanan 2000). We study … 'innovate' producing words from given letters, and face the choice to copyright or copyleft their words. Subsequent words can be …

source software to run their business smoothly.Proprietary software is protected by copyright and/or patent that confers the …This thesis aims to provide clues on how software developers could use and distribute proprietary software and open … rightholders exclusive rights for the use of their software. The developers of proprietary software use their exclusive rights to …

between developers, distributors and end-users are based on copyright law. The proliferation of software patents can, however …Open Source Software is often viewed as an anti-intellectual property regime. In contrast, we argue how intellectual … be seen as a threat for the development and deployment of open source software. We present the nature of the threat and …