Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-2010
ISSN
0010-8847
Publisher
Cornell Law School
Language
en-US
Abstract
Scholarship has examined many possible ways to encourage the creation and dissemination of art, works of authorship, ideas, and inventions: rights of exclusion (copyrights and patents), prizes, governmental subsidies, private subsidies (including both foundations and patronage), reputation, and so forth. Legal scholars have long recognized that copyright and patent are not the only options. And while some legal academics have mentioned the possibility of groups of users and creators interacting on a voluntary but structured basis, legal scholars did not give much sustained attention to such possibilities until fairly recently.
Recommended Citation
Wendy J. Gordon,
Discipline and Nourish: On Constructing Commons
,
in
95
Cornell Law Review
733
(2010).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/2017
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