Original title:
Intellectual property rights protection and enforcement in a software duopoly
Authors:
Střelický, J. ; Žigić, Krešimir Document type: Research reports
Year:
2011
Language:
eng Series:
CERGE-EI Working Paper Series, volume: 435 Abstract:
We study the economic impacts of the interaction between a regulator's Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection policy against software piracy on the one side and the forms of IPR protection that software producers may themselves undertake to protect their intellectual property on the other side.
Keywords:
bertrand competition,; software piracy; vertically dierentiated duopoly Project no.: CEZ:AV0Z70850503 (CEP)