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

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Lu, Yuanzhu., Poddar, Sougata.
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2013
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social behavior
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/99161; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/17221
• المؤسسة: 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...