http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/2009/12/27#intellectual-property <P>"Informational property" might be a better term for something that embraces so much utterly unintellectual <em>stuff</em>... <P>IP laws, economics of IP, alternatives to conventional IP (such as open source and free software; prizes for discoveries instead of patents). <P>See also: the <a href="information-society.html">Information Society and the Information Economy</a> <ul> <li>Bruce Sterling, <a href="../Sterling/Free_as_the_Air_Free_as_Water_Free_as_Knowledge.html">"Free as the Air, Free as Water, Free as Knowledge"</a> <li>Diane Coyle, <cite>The Weightless World: Strategies for Managing the Digital Economy</cite> [<a href="../reviews/weightless-world/">Review: The Weightless Juggernaut, or, Prospering from the Coming Troubles</a>] <li>Steve Landsburg, <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/68674/">"The Mother-in-Law of Invention"</a>, <cite>Slate</cite> 13 January 2000 [Landsburg is an intensely annoying writer, and occasional moral idiot, but here he is merely channeling an interesting-sounding proposal by Michael Kremer, to have patents automatically bought out and brought in to the public domain.] <li>Charles C. McCann, "Who Will Own Your Next Good Idea?", <cite>Atlantic Monthly</cite> September 1989 [<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98sep/copy.htm">Online</a>] <li>Carl Shapiro and Hal R. Varian, <cite>Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy</cite> [Good on the microeconomics of IP, with the slant of telling you how to get as much money out of it as possible. <a href="http://laniels.org/weblog/2008/03/05/carl-shapiro-and-hal-r-varian-information-rules-a-strategic-guide-to-the-network-economy/">Review by Steve Laniel</a>] </ul> <ul>To read: <li>Gar Alperovitz and Lew Daly, <cite>Unjust Deserts: How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance</cite> [<a href="http://www.thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_title&task=view_title&metaproductid=1741">Blurb</a>] <li>Yochai Benkler, "Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm," <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.CY/0109077">cs.CY/0109077</a> <li>Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine <ul> <li>"The Economics of Ideas and Intellectual Property", <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0407730102"><cite>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</cite> (USA) <strong>102</strong> (2005): 1252--1256</a> <li><cite>Against Intellectual Monopoly</cite> [<a href="http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstnew.htm">Full text free online</a>, naturally] </ul> <li>David Bollier, <cite>Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth</cite> <li>James Boyle, <cite>Shamans, Software and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information society</cite> <li>Branscomb, <cite>Who Owns Information? From Privacy to Public Access</cite> <li>James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer, <cite>Patent Failure</citE> [<a href="http://laniels.org/weblog/2008/04/01/james-bessen-and-michael-j-meurer-patent-failure/">Review by Steve Laniel</a>] <li>Kenneth W. Dam <ul> <li>"Intellectual Property in an Age of Software and Biotechnology", John M. Olin Law and Economics Working Paper No. 35 (2nd series), University of Chicago (1997) [<a href="http://www.law.uchicago.edu/Lawecon/WkngPprs_26-50/35.KWD.IP.pdf">PDF</a>] <li>"Intellectual Property and the Academic Enterprise", John M. Olin Law and Economics Working Paper No. 68 (2nd series), University of Chicago (1997) [<a href="http://www.law.uchicago.edu/Lawecon/WkngPprs_51-75/68.Dam.IP.pdf">PDF</a>] </ul> <li>Rishab Aiyer Ghosh (ed.), <cite>CODE: Collaborative Ownership and the Digital Economy</cite> [<a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262572362">Blurb</a>] <li>Ove Granstrand, <cite>The Economics and Management of Intellectual Property: Towards Intellectual Capitalism</cite> <li>Michael Heller, <cite>The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives</cite> <li>Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom (eds.), <cite>Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice</cite> [<a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/0-262-08357-4">Blurb</a>] <li>Michael Kremer, "Patent Buy-Outs: A Mechanism for Encouraging Innovation" [<a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=226059">Abstract</a>. Presumably has been published but I'm feeling too lazy to track it down.] <li>Jessica Litman, <cite><a href="http://www.digital-copyright.com">Digital Copyright</a></cite> [<a href=" http://dannyreviews.com/h/Digital_Copyright.html">Review</a> by Danny Yee] <li>Debrah Meloso, Jernej Copic and Peter Bossaerts, "Promoting Intellectual Discovery: Patents Versus Markets", <a href="http://dx.doi.org/science.1158624"><citE>Science</cite> <strong>323</strong> (2009): 1335--1339</a> <li>Suzanne Scotchmer, <cite>Innovations and Incentives</cite> </ul>