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So far we have been discussing the technological and legal environment Digital Rights Management (DRM) is surrounded by. In this section we want to revise the basic economic principles behind DRM: why information goods are protected by intellectual property rights, what the effects of unauthorized copying in a digitally networked world are and what effects strong intellectual property rights, strong copyright enforcement and DRM-Systems might have on demand and supply of information goods.
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Bauckhage, T. (2003). Digital Rights Management: Economic Aspects The Basic Economic Theory of Copying. In: Becker, E., Buhse, W., Günnewig, D., Rump, N. (eds) Digital Rights Management. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2770. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10941270_16
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