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The Economics of Open Source Hijacking and Declining Quality of Digital Information Resources: A Case for Copyleft
Ciffolilli, Andrea - EconWPA - 2004
and distribution. Solutions to the appropriation issue, such as copyright, are supposed to guarantee an incentive for … conventional inefficiencies, copyright shows an extra vice since it might be used perversely as a tool to hijack and privatise …. Furthermore, it calls for a wider use of novel institutional remedies such as copyleft and Creative Commons licensing, built upon …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118747
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Appropriability and Incentives with Complementary Innovations
D'Antoni, Massimo; Rossi, Maria Alessandra - Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Statistics, … - 2010
This article analyzes the effects on ex ante incentives to invest in the development of complementary innovations of two alternative appropriability strategies: a strategy of exclusion of third parties from access (through active enforcement of IPRs or technical means) vis-a-vis an openness...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756146
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Intellectual property rights and ex-post transaction costs: the case of open and closed source software
von Engelhardt, Sebastian - 2008
The economic characteristics of software and transaction costs explain, why closed source and open source software co-exist. It is about the efficient use of a non- and anti-scarce resource. But because of ex-post transaction costs that lead to information asymmetries, some property rights...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273765
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Open source software, closed source software or both: impacts on industry growth and the role of intellectual property rights
von Engelhardt, Sebastian; Swaminathan, Sushmita - 2008
, copyright to patent protection. Such an analysis is beneficial as it enables an objective comparison of the three scenarios … that the move from no protection to copyright protection increases the maximum growth rate. However, despite assuming … properly functioning patents, the benefits of moving from copyright to patent protection are less clear. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273790
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What economists know about open source software its basic principles and research results
von Engelhardt, Sebastian - 2011
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-paid volunteers as well as profit seeking firms. Today, OSS is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281669
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What economists know about open source software its basic principles and research results
Engelhardt, Sebastian von - 2011
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-paid volunteers as well as profit seeking firms. Today, OSS is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824082
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Geographic allocation of OSS contributions : the role of institutions and culture
Engelhardt, Sebastian; Freytag, Andreas - 2009
So-called open source software (OSS) is marked by free access to the software and its source code. Copyright-based OSS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003857732
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Open Source Software, Closed Source Software or Both : Impacts on Industry Growth and the Role of Intellectual Property Rights
Engelhardt, Sebastian von - 2014
, copyright to patent protection. Such an analysis is beneficial as it enables an objective comparison of the three scenarios … that the move from no protection to copyright protection increases the maximum growth rate. However, despite assuming … properly functioning patents, the benefits of moving from copyright to patent protection are less clear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071079
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Software Piracy and Linux Adoption
Gramstad, Arne - 2016
The open-source software operating system Linux is a free-of-charge substitute to proprietary systems like Microsoft Windows. By using a cross-country data set, this paper finds evidence that increased piracy of proprietary software has a negative impact on adoption of desktop versions of Linux....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014129640
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Intellectual Property Rights and Ex-Post Transaction Costs : The Case of Open and Closed Source Software
Engelhardt, Sebastian von - 2014
The economic characteristics of software and transaction costs explain, why closed source and open source software co-exist. It is about the efficient use of a non- and anti-scarce resource. But because of ex-post transaction costs that lead to information asymmetries, some property rights...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014206568