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The optimal level of copyright protection

Information Economics and Policy, 2002
Abstract We specify the optimal level of copyright protection for an individual producer and the society as a whole. For an individual producer, the optimal level is (i) no protection, (ii) the level under which the producer’s overall profit net of the development cost is zero, or (iii) full protection. The optimal level for the society, on the other
Kiho Yoon
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Copyright protection for digital data

IEEE Communications Letters, 2000
If /spl Gamma//sub p/ is a p-ary code of length n, and a and b are two codewords, then c is called a descendant of a and b if c/sub i//spl isin/{a/sub i/, b/sub i/} for i=1,...,n. We are interested in codes /spl Gamma//sub p/ with the property that for any two codewords a and b their only descendant codewords are a and b themselves.
Gérard D. Cohen, Sylvia B. Encheva, Gilles Zémor   +2 more
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Copyright protection of computer programs

Digest of Papers. COMPCON Spring 89. Thirty-Fourth IEEE Computer Society International Conference: Intellectual Leverage, 2003
Although patent protection is becoming increasingly available, copyright remains the favored method of protecting computer programs both here and abroad. Such protection extends to computer code and screen displays. The basic test of copyright infringement in other cases, whether the work is recognized by an ordinary observer as having been taken from ...
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Copyright protection and entry deterrence

Information Economics and Policy, 2015
Abstract Illegal copying of digital products has become an increasingly debated issue. I present a previously unmentioned possible effect of piracy, namely that it may benefit an incumbent producer by making entry less profitable. In a differentiated products setting I show that when entry costs or the consumer valuation of the product are high ...
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