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Hume's Penguin, Or, Yochai Benkler And The Nature Of Peer Production, Steven A. Hetcher
Hume's Penguin, Or, Yochai Benkler And The Nature Of Peer Production, Steven A. Hetcher
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
This Article examines 'peer production," a term coined and a concept explicated by Yochai Benkler. My own interest in peer production stems from its importance as a new form of user-generated content. User-generated content is particularly interesting if Benkler is right in his claim that the positive analysis of peer-produced content may have normative implications with respect to copyright law--in particular, the implication that copyright law may play a deleterious role in the formation and maintenance of this potentially significant new form of user-generated content. We are in need of a theory of collective action for the social world that …