Authors
Siobhán O’Mahony
Publication date
2003/7/1
Journal
Research policy
Volume
32
Issue
7
Pages
1179-1198
Publisher
North-Holland
Description
Theorists often speculate why open source and free software project contributors give their work away. Although contributors make their work publicly available, they do not forfeit their rights to it. Community managed software projects protect their work by using several legal and normative tactics, which should not be conflated with a disregard for or neglect of intellectual property rights. These tactics allow a project’s intellectual property to be publicly and freely available and yet, governable. Exploration of this seemingly contradictory state may provide new insight into governance models for the management of digital intellectual property.
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