The decrease of privacy caused by Digital Rights Management is a serious issue, since it slows down the adoption by the consumers of the DRM technologies, at a time when a very large adoption is needed to win the fight against piracy. This article presents two outlines of solutions that are...

The aim of this article is to evaluate, from an economic perspective, the efficiency of Web 2.0. It demonstrates that, because of the non-monetary nature of Web 2.0, several sources of inefficiencies (search costs, externalities, crowding out and adverse selection) exist. Nonetheless, the...

This article explains how DRM helped Apple gain market leadership, why Microsoft departed from its usual "software-only" strategy and dropped PlayForSure (and its partners) to launch Zune, why Sony, the historical market leader, failed where Apple succeeded while using the same strategy and,...

Purpose - The purpose of the paper is to provide a taxonomy of values created by corporate patents. Design/methodology/approach - Following an extensive literature review, value created by corporate patents is analysed according to four categories: embedded in individuals; embedded in systems...