Meheroo Jussawalla

The Economics of Intellectual Property in a World without Frontiers (eBook, PDF)

A Study of Computer Software

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This work explores the problems arising from dynamic information technology in its application to intellectual property rights. In a global marketplace of ideas, political boundaries and the sovereignty of the nation state seem to be disappearing because of the increasing difficulty of scrutinizing the infringement of intellectual property. That is particularly true of computer software, the focus of this book. The work analyzes the legal and political economy implications of investment in the software programming industry and the near-futility of monitoring protection of intellectual property in industry.

The book begins by exploring the current state of copyright laws for computer software. It analyzes the economic theories of demand elasticities, public choice, clubs, and the concept of public goods as those theories apply to intellectual property, particularly computer software. This analysis is followed by a discussion of prevailing legislation in the United States, Europe, Japan, Asia, and China. The analysis is fortified by a comprehensive coverage of the Uruguay Round. The work concludes in favor of the free flow of information, which yields overwhelming benefits to a globally integrated market.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 1992
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313066412
• Artikelnr.: 68251254

Autorenporträt

MEHEROO JUSSAWALLA is a Senior Research Fellow and Economist in the Program on Communications and Journalism at the East-West Center in Honolulu. She has done pioneering work in the economics of information and telecommunications as related to development in the Asia-Pacific region. She has published twelve books and many articles in accredited journals. Her latest books are Economics of Intellectual Property Rights in a World Without Frontiers (Greenwood, 1992) and United States-Japan Trade in Telecommunications: Conflict and Compromise (Greenwood, 1993). She is on the advisory committee of Transnational Data and Communications Report and on the editorial board of Information Economics and Policy. She is also an elected member of the board of trustees of the International Institute of Communications (London) and the Board of Trustees of the Pacific Telecommunications Council (Honolulu).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Developments in Economic Theory and Trade Theory Concerning
Intellectual Property Intellectual Property in the GATT Framework The Legal
Framework as it Exists in Various Countries Changing Technologies and
Intellectual Property Conclusion Mathematical Appendix References Index