The impact of piracy on prominent and non-prominent software developers

Alexander Rasch; Tobias Wenzel

This paper studies the impact of software piracy on prominent and non-prominent software developers in markets based on a two-sided platform business. Consumer behavior is imperfect and, when adopting a platform, consumers only take prominent software into account. We show that prominent software exhibits higher piracy rates than non-prominent software. However, contrary to intuition, this does not necessarily mean that prominent software developers benefit more from increased software protection. Indeed, we show that prominent developers may lose out whereas non-prominent developers may gain from better software protection.

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Rasch, Alexander ; Wenzel, Tobias
Publisher:	Düsseldorf : DICE
Subject:	Piracy \| Platform \| Software \| Two-sided market \| Softwareentwicklung \| Software development \| Produktpiraterie \| Product counterfeiting \| Netzwerkökonomik \| Network economics \| Softwareindustrie \| Software industry \| Urheberrechtsverletzung \| Copyright infringement \| IT-Recht \| IT law \| Digitale Plattform \| Digital platform \| Immaterialgüterrechte \| Intellectual property rights

Extent:	Online-Ressource (23 S.)
Series:	DICE discussion paper. - Düsseldorf, Germany : düsseldorf university press, ISSN 2190-9938, ZDB-ID 2578649-0. - Vol. 167
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat Reader
ISBN:	978-3-86304-166-3
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/104537 [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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