Ideas, Artifacts, and Facilities: Information as a Common-Pool Resource

Hess, Charlotte, and Elinor Ostrom. “Ideas, artifacts, and facilities: information as a common-pool resource.” Law and contemporary problems 66, no. 1/2 (2003): 111-145.
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There is an increasing concern about the implications of recent and impending legislation on the future of academic research, open science, traditional knowledge, and the intellectual public domain. The Duke Law School Conference on the Public Domain brought together, for the first time, an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars studying the increasing enclosure’ of the global information commons. In the past five years, law review articles have described an information arms race from various perspectives, with multiple sides battling for larger shares of the global knowledge pool.’

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