Electronic publishers manage their intellectualproperty in an environment that appears to foster illegitimate competition,particularly piracy.The characteristics of digital technology thatfacilitate copyright infringement are outlined includingthe proliferationof powerful home and business...

In early 1999, the OECD launched an internationally comparable study of the diffusion and economic and competitive impacts of business-to-business electronic commerce over the Internet. A first set of case studies was conducted in France between February 1999 and September 1999. Three sectors...