Copyright enforcement in the digital age: empirical evidence and policy implications

Abstract

Government-sanctioned and market-based anti-piracy measures can both mitigate economic harm from piracy.

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Index Terms

• Human-centered computing

• Information systems

  • World Wide Web

    • Web applications

      • Electronic commerce

    • Web mining

      • Traffic analysis

• Networks

• Security and privacy

• Social and professional topics

  • Computing / technology policy

    • Intellectual property