[A2k] Essay published: 'The Value of the Public Domain']

Tue Jul 18 06:28:07 2006

This is a good contribution to the debates we are having at national and
international fora. In deabtes about the reduction or most often expansion
of IPRs, various cost/ benefit approaches are used. One difficulty is how
to put a 'value' on the public domain. Rufus's essay is an attempt to do
just that.

Michelle
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Subject: [ipr] Essay published: 'The Value of the Public Domain'
From:    "Rufus Pollock" <rufus.pollock@okfn.org>
Date:    Mon, July 17, 2006 7:26 am
To:      ipr@mailhost.soros.org
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Vera suggested members of the list might be interested in a paper I
authored on 'The Value of the Public Domain' which was published on
Friday by the Institute for Public Policy Research. Full details
including a link to the PDF version of the paper are in the blog post
excerpted below.

Regards,

Rufus Pollock

http://blog.okfn.org/2006/07/14/the-value-of-the-public-domain-published/

The Value of the Public Domain was published last friday by the IPPR as
a part of a set commissioned for their project on IP and the Public
Sphere. You can download the paper from the IPPR website in pdf form via
this link:

http://www.ippr.org/ecomm/files/value_of_public_domain.pdf

It is is available under v2.5 of the Creative Commons attribution
licence so feel free to use, reuse and redistribute!

In addition to the paper the IPPR will be making available the recording
of the event which included talks from Lord Sainsbury, Chris Parker of
Microsoft, and Richard Jennings who is Head of Consultancy Services at
Cambridge Enterprise.

UPDATE: the talks are now linked from the IPPR=92s IP and the Public
Sphere project blog at http://ippr.typepad.com/:

Part 1 of the seminar (mp3): Lord Sainsbury, Chris Parker, Rufus Pollock
and Dr Richard Jennings (File size: 37.7MB - Duration of audio 1 hr 22
mins 23 secs)

Listen to Part 2 of the seminar (mp3): Questions from the floor and
panel responses (File size: 17.6MB - Duration 38 mins 33 secs)

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