International Software Piracy: Analysis of Key Issues and Impacts

Information Systems Research

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 380-397

  Gopal, Ram D ^a   Sanders, G Lawrence ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Economics; Ethics; Intellectual Property; Software Piracy

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; COPYRIGHTS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; PUBLISHING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STUDENTS;

CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH; DOMESTIC SOFTWARE; ETHICS; INCENTIVE STRUCTURE; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS; PUBLISHING INDUSTRY; SOFTWARE PUBLISHERS;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 0032245475     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.9.4.380     Document Type: Article

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