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The Economics of Collaborative Production

Journal Article

Mark Cooper
Stanford Law School, Center for Internet and Society
( 1 January 2006 )

Topic(s) of work
Funding, Public Goods

Abstract

This paper argues that the dramatic growth of collaborative activities constitutes the emergence of a new mode of information production based on superior economics of collaborative production in the presence of digital computer/communications platforms. This new mode of production challenges fundamental concepts of the role and function of property and commercial relationships in the production of information goods.