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Law Library Blog (September 2017): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law Library Blog (September 2017): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
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Law Library Blog (August 2017): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law Library Blog (August 2017): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
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Law Library Blog (April 2017): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law Library Blog (April 2017): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
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Governing Medical Knowledge Commons - Introduction And Chapter 1, Katherine J. Strandburg, Brett M. Frischmann, Michael J. Madison
Governing Medical Knowledge Commons - Introduction And Chapter 1, Katherine J. Strandburg, Brett M. Frischmann, Michael J. Madison
Book Chapters
Governing Medical Knowledge Commons makes three claims: first, evidence matters to innovation policymaking; second, evidence shows that self-governing knowledge commons support effective innovation without prioritizing traditional intellectual property rights; and third, knowledge commons can succeed in the critical fields of medicine and health. The editors' knowledge commons framework adapts Elinor Ostrom's groundbreaking research on natural resource commons to the distinctive attributes of knowledge and information, providing a systematic means for accumulating evidence about how knowledge commons succeed. The editors' previous volume, Governing Knowledge Commons, demonstrated the framework's power through case studies in a diverse range of areas. Governing Medical Knowledge …
Law And Economics Of Information, Tim Wu
Law And Economics Of Information, Tim Wu
Faculty Scholarship
Information is of enormous importance to contemporary economics, science, and technology. Since the 1970s, economists and legal scholars, relying on a simplified “public good” model of information, have constructed an impressively extensive body of scholarship devoted to the relationship between law and information. The public good model tends to justify law, such as the intellectual property laws or various forms of securities regulation that seek to incentivize the production of information or its broader dissemination. This chapter reviews the public choice model and identifies two recent trends. First, scholars have extended the public good model of information to an ever-increasing …