Accommodation or deterrence in the face of commercial piracy : the impact of intellectual property rights protection

• Main Authors: Lu, Yuanzhu., Poddar, Sougata.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social behavior
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/99161; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/17221
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this paper, we study when the original product developer makes costly investment to deter a commercial pirate in a given regime of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection. We find that when the consumers' tastes are sufficiently diverse and the IPR protection is weak, it is profitable...