Journal article
Impact of Network Externality on End-User Piracy: Revisited
Economics bulletin, Vol.37(3), pp.1457-1467
01/01/2017
Abstract
We revisit the issue whether a strong presence of network externality in the digital products market could be a reason for the copyright holders to allow piracy. We find that except under a limited circumstance this is not true in a framework that involves IPR protection and copyright holder's costly effort to prevent piracy. We further show that as the degree of network externality increases, the strategic piracy deterrence level of the copyright holder increases and the actual rate of piracy decreases.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Impact of Network Externality on End-User Piracy: Revisited
- Creators
- Sougata Poddar - University of RedlandsYuanzhu Lu - Cent Univ Finance & Econ, Beijing, Peoples R China
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Economics bulletin, Vol.37(3), pp.1457-1467
- ISSN
- 1545-2921
- eISSN
- 1545-2921
- Publisher
- Economics Bulletin
- Number of pages
- 12
- Grant note
- Program for Innovation Research in Central University of Finance and Economics 71202127 / National Natural Science Foundation of China; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2017
- Academic Unit
- Economics
- Record Identifier
- 9984963055002771
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