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Intellectual Property Right Protection in the Software Market
Arai, Yasuhiro - Center for Research on Contemporary Economic Systems, … - 2010
We discuss the software patent should be granted or not. There exist two types of coping in the software market …; reverse engineering and software duplication. Software patent can prevent both types of copies since a patent protects an idea …. If the software is not protected by a patent, software producer cannot prevent reverse engineering. However, the producer …
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Civil and criminal penalties for copyright infringement
Arai, Yasuhiro - In: Information Economics and Policy 23 (2011) 3, pp. 270-280
Copyright violations are subject to both civil and criminal sanctions, but criminal charges are relatively rare. Using a theoretical model, this study compares the implications of civil and criminal penalty schemes from the viewpoint of social welfare, where civil and criminal schemes are...
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Intellectual property right protection in the software market
Arai, Yasuhiro - In: Economics of innovation and new technology 27 (2018) 1/2, pp. 1-13
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Does Copyright Enforcement Encourage Piracy?
Harbaugh, Rick; Khemka, Rahul - 2000
More intensive copyright enforcement reduces piracy, raises prices, and lowers consumer surplus. We show that these results do not hold regarding the extent rather than intensity of enforcement. When enforcement is targeted at high-value buyers such as corporate and government users, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334574
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Does copyright enforcement encourage piracy?
Harbaugh, Rick; Khemka, Rahul - 2001
More intensive copyright enforcement reduces piracy, raises prices, and lowers consumer surplus. We show that these results do not hold regarding the extent rather than intensity of enforcement. When enforcement is targeted at high-value buyers such as corporate and government users, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011566220
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Does Copyright Enforcement Encourage Piracy?
Harbaugh, Rick; Khemka, Rahul - Economics Department, Claremont McKenna College
More intensive copyright enforcement reduces piracy, raises prices, and lowers consumer surplus. We show that these results do not hold regarding the extent rather than intensity of enforcement. When enforcement is targeted at high-value buyers such as corporate and government users, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150899
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The Neo-Liquiditie's Lament: Excessive Upgrades in the Software Industry.
Ellison, G.; Fudenberg, D. - Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), … - 1999
This paper explores a monopolist's incentives to provides upgraded versions of its software. In particular, the authors …
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Freeware As An Advertisement
Duc, Niem Le - Development and Policies Research Center (Depocen) - 2011
This paper examines the situation in which a monopolist offers freeware as an advertisement to increase the demand in order to maximize profit even though the existence of such freeware will reduce the power of the monopolist in the market. We prove that the successful application of freeware is...
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Software Marketing on the Internet : The Use of Samples and Repositories
Gaudeul, Alexia - 2014
This paper examines one of the most important marketing strategies by software producers on the Internet. That is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014217700
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Software Licensing : Pay-Per-Use versus Perpetual
Jiang, Baojun; Chen, Pei-Yu; Mukhopadhyay, Tridas - 2015
Piracy has been a major problem for perpetually licensed software. Usage-based licensing architecture such as pay …-per-use or software-as-a-service can offer technology-based protection against piracy. We provide an analytical framework to …, and heterogeneous consumers in terms of marginal usage benefit and acquisition costs for pirated software. We show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220619