The Economic Effects of Counterfeiting and Piracy : A Review and Implications for Developing Countries
Policy makers around the world recognize the potentially harmful consequences of trademark counterfeiting and copyright piracy. Indeed, many countries have recently initiated policy reforms to strengthen the enforcement of intellectual property rig...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/02/25994655/economic-effects-counterfeiting-piracy-review-implications-developing-countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23923 |
| Summary: | Policy makers around the world recognize
the potentially harmful consequences of trademark
counterfeiting and copyright piracy. Indeed, many countries
have recently initiated policy reforms to strengthen the
enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR). Further,
minimum standards of enforcement have been incorporated in
many international treaties, especially trade agreements.
This emphasis on enforcement raises basic questions about
the actual impacts of IP rights infringement, which differ
across the types of IPR and economic sectors. The authors
review the academic literature and other studies in the
public domain to evaluate what has been learned about these
socioeconomic effects, with an emphasis on developing
countries where possible. They also identify important gaps
in our understanding of the consequences of counterfeiting
and piracy and develop recommendations on how governments
might collect data and conduct studies to better inform IPR
enforcement policy. |
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