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 …

software. A theoretical solution to this overlap is the exclusion of copyright protection to computer software, due to its …

After a decade of bruising legal battles, the courts and software industry norms largely resolved the costly war over … the scope of copyright protection for computer software. By the mid 1990s, freedom to develop interoperable devices …, systems, and software triumphed over broad copyright protection for network features of computer software. Copyright peace …

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