Piracy in a two-sided software market

Alexander Rasch; Tobias Wenzel

This paper studies the impact of software piracy in a two-sidedmarket setting. Software platforms attract developers and users to maximize their profits. The equilibrium price structure is affected by piracy: license fees to developers are higher with more software protection but the impact on user prices is ambiguous. A conflict between platforms and software developers over software protection may arise: whereas one side benefits from better protection, the other party loses out. Under platform compatibility, this conflict is no longer present. -- Developer ; piracy ; platform ; software ; two-sided markets

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Rasch, Alexander ; Wenzel, Tobias
Publisher:	Düsseldorf : DICE
Subject:	Software \| Netzwerkökonomik \| Network economics \| Softwareindustrie \| Software industry \| Produktpiraterie \| Product counterfeiting \| Urheberrechtsverletzung \| Copyright infringement \| Theorie \| Theory \| IT-Recht \| IT law \| Immaterialgüterrechte \| Intellectual property rights \| Marktstruktur \| Market structure

Extent:	Online-Ressource (27 S.)
Series:	DICE discussion paper. - Düsseldorf, Germany : düsseldorf university press, ISSN 2190-9938, ZDB-ID 2578649-0. - Vol. 85
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat Reader
ISBN:	978-3-86304-084-0
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/70093 [Handle]
Classification:	L11 - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure Size; Size Distribution of Firms ; L86 - Information and Internet Services; Computer Software
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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