The United States has gone from a net – and frequently illegal – importer of intellectual property (IP) to the World’s biggest IP supplier in a historically short time. During the past quarter century, IP holders have teamed with government entities to support international initiatives and...

Key findings in our submission include: 1. The protection of computer generated works (CGW) should be removed. By removing the provisions on CGWs, the protection of human creations and the protection for human authors remains intact. This is because the CGWs are, by definition, authorless (ie...

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 metrics (internet penetration rate and number of PC...