A Tragedy of the Public Knowledge 'Common' ? Global Science, Tellectual Property and The Digital Technology Boomerang

Paul David

Working Papers from United Nations World Employment Programme-

Abstract: The paper sets out the economic case for the effectiveness of open, collaborative research, and the forces behind the recent, countervailing rush to strengthen and expand the scope of intellectual property rights protection. Focusing upon innovations in copyright law and the sui generis protection of hitherto unprotected content, it documents the genesis and analyzes the economic implications of the EC's Database Directive, and related legislative proposals (H.R. 3125, H.R. 354 and H.R. 1858) in the US. The discussion concludes by advancing a number of modest remedial proposals that are intended to promoted greater efforts to arrive at satisfactory policy solutions for this aspect of "the digital dilemma".

Keywords: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; INFORMATION; SCIENCE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H40 K39 O31 O34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2000
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