caa a22 4500 378936298 CHVBK 20180305123641.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20040928xx s 000 0 eng 10.2202/1538-0645.1189 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.2202/1538-0645.1189 Selective Enforcement of Copyright as an Optimal Monopolistic Behavior [Elektronische Daten] [Danny Ben-Shahar, Assaf Jacob] We present a perfect Nash equilibrium in which the creator of a work, motivated by economic considerations, selectively enforces her own copyright. In fact, the creator may not only permit, but may strategically promote infringement of the copyright, thereby participating indirectly in predatory pricing, and so raising barriers to entry. Our model is highly applicable to the software industry, where relatively high entry costs and the relatively low cost of copyright infringement make this phenomenon likely. We further show the conditions under which exogenous intervention, through intensive enforcement of copyrights, increases social welfare. Finally, we explore some potential strategies for such legal intervention. ©2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston K21, L12, L41, O34 nationallicence Antitrust nationallicence Copyright nationallicence Predatory Pricing nationallicence Monopoly nationallicence Microsoft nationallicence Nash Equilibrium nationallicence Price Discrimination nationallicence Ben-Shahar Danny The Interdisciplinary Center, danny@idc.ac.il aut Jacob Assaf IDC, jacoba@post.tau.ac.il aut Contributions in Economic Analysis & Policy De Gruyter 3/1(2004-09-28) 3:1 2004 3 bejeap https://doi.org/10.2202/1538-0645.1189 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2202/1538-0645.1189 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ben-Shahar Danny The Interdisciplinary Center, danny@idc.ac.il aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Jacob Assaf IDC, jacoba@post.tau.ac.il aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Contributions in Economic Analysis & Policy De Gruyter 3/1(2004-09-28) 3:1 2004 3 bejeap CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter