Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration the Yrjö Jahnsson Working Paper Series in Industrial Economics
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This paper investigates the recently-practiced method of taxing hardware and transferring the proceeds to software makers, or artists in general. We demonstrate that this policy of compensating copyright owners for infringements on their intellectual property using hardware taxation is inefficient. Presented at the conference “Competition Strategies and Competition Policy in the Information Economy,” funded by The Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation and held in Helsinki (Hanasaari) April 5-6, 2002. ∗We thank Paul Belleflamme, Avner Bar-Ilan, and Avi Weiss for most valuable suggestions and comments on earlier drafts. †Department of Economics, University of Haifa, 31905 Haifa, Israel. ‡Corresponding Author : Department of Economics, University of Haifa, 31905 Haifa, Israel. E-mail: [email protected]
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