How Does the Intellectual Property Affect the Countries (Economically)

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How does the Intellectual Property affect the countries (economically)? --- Specific examples of different types of countries Intellectual properties can be seen as moral respects, social fairness and also economic development. As one of many kinds of properties, it is a composite of legal relations that owned by persons, it is a right for holding and using one thing (Thomas W. Merrill and Henry E. Smith, P.266). Intellectual is the information that people live with every moment. The application of property law to information is what people called “intellectual property law” (Cooter and Ulen, P297). It can affect the economic in both positive and negative ways. Different countries also react and result differently in dealing with intellectual properties. The essay was designed to explain the development of intellectual property (the problems, protections, etc), how can they effect the economy and take a close example/comparisons on different types of countries. There are several reasons that this kind of property right can not be defining and establishing well in the market. The most effective one would be that information is generally cheaper to transmit than produce. “Free rides” are better choices because people do not have to pay the prices which exceed the transmission costs. So the producers have to sell more information than a fraction of its original value which creates the nonappropriability problems. Because of these, the market often undersupply these goods, which far less than the efficient amount of information, the shortage appears which is also a sign of a unhealthy market. In order to solve this situation, the four remedies were suggested. The first two were similar, the subsidies from state and charitable contributions from the society. Both of the remedies are only fixing symptoms of the problem. The
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