This study extends the literature on fighting software piracy by investigating how Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs …) regimes interact with technology to mitigate software piracy when existing levels of piracy are considered. Two technology … regressions.The findings show that the relevance of IPR channels in the fight against software piracy is noticeably contingent on …

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

There is an ongoing conflict between software copyright owners and a vast majority of users who are continually finding … ways to use the software without paying. The paper investigates the attitudes of the users towards application of licensed … or unlicensed software. Through in-debt analysis of the focus group of software users on one hand and the official …

We develop a model to study the implications of a legal environment on software development and international trade. We … customized software development. In autarky, a country with weak copyright protection develops customized software only, while a … country with strong copyright protection develops both customized software and packaged software. After opening to trade, the …

The non-literal scope of protection for software is intricate legally and is intricate technical. Thus, despite …

Open source software and the movement behind it, the Open Source Software Movement unknown to many has been in … existence since long. Discussed in the article is this concept with relevance to the software industry. The US statutes on … sourcing, which have turned out to be the buzzwords in the computer software industry are also brought into limelight. A look …

The paper attempts to elaborate on the open source licensing of the software and the legal status of the open source …

This study examines the persistence of software piracy with internet penetration vis-à-vis of PC users, conditional on … responsible for the persistence of global software piracy. Knowing how technology affects the persistence of piracy is important … because it enables more targeted policy initiatives. We show that the sensitivity of software piracy to IPRs mechanisms is …