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 …

autonomous rate of software piracy; consistent with the 'law and property rights' theory. (2) But for IPRs laws, the other IP … protection channels (WIPO treaties, Main IP law and multilateral treaties) reduce the incidence of software piracy. (3) In both … short-run and long-term, IPRs protection channels in civil law countries appear to mitigate software piracy more than in …

This thesis aims to provide clues on how software developers could use and distribute proprietary software and open … source software to run their business smoothly.Proprietary software is protected by copyright and/or patent that confers the … rightholders exclusive rights for the use of their software. The developers of proprietary software use their exclusive rights to …

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

There is an ongoing conflict between software copyright owners and a vast majority of users who are continually finding … ways to use the software without paying. The paper investigates the attitudes of the users towards application of licensed … or unlicensed software. Through in-debt analysis of the focus group of software users on one hand and the official …

The EU software patent could be the long awaited resolve to an extensive debate around software. The resolution should … internet, the experience of the existing US software patent, and the identification of the interested parties.In 2013 EU … initiative supporting the EU software patent.The paper's objective is to prove that the patent could become the most effective …