0431725 - NHU-C 2015 CZ eng V - Research Report
Žigić, Krešimir - Střelický, J. - Kúnin, Michael
How does public IPR protection affect its private counterpart? Copyright and the firms' own IPR protection in a software duopoly.
Prague: CERGE-EI, 2014. 48 s. CERGE-EI Working Paper Series, 518. ISSN 1211-3298
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GAP402/12/0961
Institutional support: PRVOUK-P23
Keywords : vertically differentiated duopoly * software piracy * copyright protection
Subject RIV: AH - Economics
http://www.cerge-ei.cz/pdf/wp/Wp518.pdf

We study how the strength of public intellectual property rights (IPR) protection against software piracy (copyright protection) affects private IPR protection (that software developers may themselves undertake to protect their IPR). There are two software developers that offer a product variety of differing (exogenously given) quality and compete in prices for heterogeneous users, who make a choice whether to buy a legal version, use an illegal copy (if they can), or not use a product at all.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0237713