Innovation and copyright infringement: The Case of Commercial Piracy and End-user Piracy

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The purpose of this paper is to analyse the question, whether copyright infringement of digital products like software commonly labelled as piracy impedes innovation. We find the answer depends on the nature of piracy i.e. whether it is end-users or commercial piracy. For end user piracy, copyright infringement does not necessarily impede innovation; in fact it can be shown that it encourages innovation when the pirates are active. However, for commercial piracy, it always impedes innovation which has negative implications on the overall welfare of the society. We show under what conditions the government intervention through IPR protection strategy (like monitoring and imposing a fine to the pirate) can support the copyright holder for higher level of innovation. We find the socially optimally monitoring rate for the government that result in maximum innovation for the copyright holder

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Economics Working Paper Series ; No. 2013/09

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Firm Behavior: Theory ; Market Structure, Pricing, and Design: Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection ; Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets ; Business Objectives of the Firm ; Entrepreneurship
• Thema: Innovation ; piracy ; monitoring ; social welfare

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Banerjee, Dyuti ; Poddar, Sougata
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Auckland University of Technology (AUT), Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
• (wo): Auckland
• (wann): 2013

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/242523
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ