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October 2006
7 x 9, 357 pp., 2 illus.
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0-262-57236-2
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-57236-1

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Collaborative Ownership and the Digital Economy
Edited by Rishab Aiyer Ghosh

Series Foreword
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Acknowledgmentsix
1.Why Collaboration is Important (Again)
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
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I.Creativity and Domains of Collaboration7
2.Imagined Collectivities and Multiple Authorship
Marilyn Strathern
13
3.Modes of Creativity and the Register of Ownership
James Leach
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4.Some Properties of Culture and Persons
Fred Myers
45
5.Square Pegs in Round Holes? Cultural Production, Intellectual Property Frameworks, and Discourses of Power
Boatema Boateng
61
6.Who Got Left Out of the Property Grab Again: Oral Traditions, Indigenous Rights, and Valuable Old Knowledge
Anthony Seeger
75
7.From Keeping "Nature's Secrets" to the Institutionalization of "Open Science"
Paul A. David
85
II.Mechanisms for Collaboration109
8.Benefit-Sharing: Experiments in Governance
Cori Hayden
113
9.Trust Among the Algorithms: Ownership, Identity, and the Collaborative Stewardship of Information
Christopher Kelty
127
10.Cooking-Pot Markets and Balanced Value Flows
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
153
11.Coase's Penguin, or, Linux and the Nature of the Firm
Yochai Benkler
169
12.Paying for Public Goods
James Love and Tim Hubbard
207
III.Ownership, Property, and the Commons231
13.Fencing Off Ideas: Enclosure and the Disappearance of the Public Domain
James Boyle
235
14.A Renaissance of the Commons: How the New Sciences and the Internet are Framing a New Global Identity and Order
John Clippinger and David Bollier
259
15.Positive Intellectual Rights and Information Exchanges
Phillipe Aigrain
287
16.Copyright and Globalization in the Age of Computer Networks
Richard Stallman
317
Contributors
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Index
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