IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ris/utmsje/0317.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Examining The Software Piracy Problem Through The Case Of The Macedonian Economy

Author

Listed:
  • Petkovski, Aleksandar

    (Faculty of Social Sciences, University Mother Teresa, Skopje, Macedonia;)

  • Damoska Sekuloska, Jovanka

    (Faculty for Computer Science and Engineering, University of Information Science and Technology “St. Paul the Apostle” Ohrid, Republic of North Macedonia)

Abstract

There is an ongoing conflict between software copyright owners and a vast majority of users who are continually finding ways to use the software without paying. The paper investigates the attitudes of the users towards application of licensed or unlicensed software. Through in-debt analysis of the focus group of software users on one hand and the official authorities responsible for implementation of copyrights regulation the paper identifies the reasons behind the actual situation of software using in the Macedonian economy. The officials do not invest any serious effort in the implementation of the copyrights protection legislation. The main arguments of the users, for opting to use unlicensed software, are the low purchasing power of people in Macedonian economy and the high software prices. The actual situation is unsustainable from legal, ethical, and economic aspects. A possible way out of this situation would entail software producers adjusting the prices of their products to the average purchase power of the Macedonian citizens, and the state should stop tolerating software piracy and display consistency in the implementation of copyright protection legislation.

Suggested Citation

  • Petkovski, Aleksandar & Damoska Sekuloska, Jovanka, 2021. "Examining The Software Piracy Problem Through The Case Of The Macedonian Economy," UTMS Journal of Economics, University of Tourism and Management, Skopje, Macedonia, vol. 12(2), pages 211-224.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:utmsje:0317
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://utmsjoe.mk/files/Vol.12.No.2/8.EXAMINING_THE_SOFTWARE_PIRACY_PROBLEM_THROUGH_THE_CASE_OF_THE_MACEDONIAN_ECONOMY.pdf
    File Function: Full text
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    licensed software; unlicensed software; copyright; purchasing power; legislation;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • E10 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - General
    • E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ris:utmsje:0317. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Assistant Professor. Dejan Nakovski, PhD (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/feutmmk.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.