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BSA Piracy Reduction Impact Study

Neil Horton — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:11:02 +0000

BSA Piracy Reduction Impact Study Economic Benefits of a Ten-Point Reduction in Software Piracy (from 2008-2011)

For more information about “The Economic Benefits of Lowering PC Software Piracy,” and the Business Software Alliance, visit the: BSA – IDC Study

Sixth Annual BSA-IDC Global Software Piracy Study (08)

Neil Horton — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:06:58 +0000

May 2009 Sixth Annual BSA-IDC Global Software 08 Piracy Study

For more information: BSA Global Study

Piracy prevention and the pricing of information goods

Neil Horton — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:19:20 +0000

Cremer, H., & Pierre, P. (2009). Piracy prevention and the pricing of information goods. Information Economics and Policy, 21, 34-42.

This paper studies the effects of piracy on prices and welfare and determines the optimal enforcement policy. A monopolist sells an information good at a non-linear price in two versions designed for two types of consumers [...]

Whatever happened to Payola? An empirical analysis of online music sharing

Neil Horton — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:33:56 +0000

Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., Lertwachara, K., & Marsden, J. R. (2006). Whatever happened to Payola? An empirical analysis of online music sharing. Decision Support Systems, 42, 104-120.

The popularity of online music-sharing networks has attracted interest from the music industry, artists, consumer advocacy groups, the popular press, and government legislative and regulatory entities. P2P networks [...]

Global Survey on Counterfeiting and Piracy

Neil Horton — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:28:56 +0000

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Commercial piracy and intellectual property policy

Neil Horton — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:02:11 +0000

Kiema, I.(2008). Commercial piracy and intellectual property policy. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 68, 304-318.

I discuss the competition between a copyright owner and several commercial pirates who sell copies of the same information good to consumers. I view the increased risk of a punishment that offering a pirate copy to a consumer causes as [...]

Legal origin and intellectual property rights: an empirical study in the prerecorded music sector

Neil Horton — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:03:31 +0000

Pons, J. D. M., & Garcia, M. C. (2008). Legal origin and intellectual property rights: an empirical study in the prerecorded music sector. European Journal of Law and Economics, 26, 153-173.

This article aims at identifying differences in copyright protection in prerecorded music markets, and more specifically the impact of the legal system on the demand [...]

Piracy and limited liability

Neil Horton — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:03:29 +0000

Chang, M. C., Lin, C. F., & Wu, D.(2008). Piracy and limited liability. Journal of Economics, 95, 25-53.

This paper analyzes the effects of end-user piracy on a monopolized software industry with network effects in which consumers have heterogeneous income and limited liability. Limited liability produces a piracy cost which increases with income. The monopolist thus [...]

Pirated for profit

Neil Horton — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:34:35 +0000

Slive, J., & Bernhardt, D. (1998). Pirated for profit. Canadian Journal of Economics – Revue Canadienne d’Economique, 31, 886-899.

This paper explains why a software manufacturer may permit limited piracy of its software. Piracy can be viewed as a form of price discrimination in which the manufacturer sells some of the software at a price of [...]

The winds of change: digital technologies, trading information and managing intellectual property rights

Neil Horton — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:33:35 +0000

Tang, P., & Hulsink, W. (1998). The winds of change: digital technologies, trading information and managing intellectual property rights. International Journal of Technology Management, 15, 869-894.

The paper will investigate how the management of intellectual property rights will affect the shaping of the newly emerging global and digital market place. The relevant question to be dealt [...]