Fighting 21st Century Pirates: The Business Software Alliance in Hong Kong Case Solution
For computer software companies, software piracy represented a substantial loss of potential earnings. In response to exchange in copied software and the software companies banded together into an international legal lobby company, the BSA. Separate charter variations of the BSA were created in nations around the world to press intellectual property laws to stiffen and pursue anti-piracy estimates.
The challenge in Hong Kong of bSA was to clamp down on illegal software distribution and software piracy, while concurrently raising the size of the local software market. How could it support notoriously protectionist Asian authorities to open their computer sectors to free and see-through commerce, while simultaneously getting them to strike hard at illegal commerce that endangered mainly big U.S. companies?
This is just an excerpt. This case is about GLOBAL BUSINESS
PUBLICATION DATE: January 01, 1999
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