Contents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Commons, Intellectual Commons, and their Tragedies 3. Nonprofit Organizations and the Commons Environment 4. Current Nonprofit Organization Theories and their Applications 5. Associating Nonprofit Organizations with the Commons Environment 6. Conclusion Appendices Bibliography Index
Jyh-An Lee, Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
'Practitioners as well as scholars and researchers in intellectual
property as well as IT will appreciate the author's quite original
perspective NPOs and their role in supporting the production of
intellectual commons.'
--Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, The Barrister
Magazine'There is no issue more fundamental to the growth of the
open source society than a more mature and penetrating
understanding of the nature of the nonprofit organization in a
digital culture. Professor Lee s book is essential reading to this
fundamental topic, beautifully written and brilliantly
conceived.'
--Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law School, US'Jyh-An Lee provides the
first comprehensive account of nonprofit organizations and their
overlooked role in setting (and working around) intellectual
property policy. The reader will find a wealth of information and a
novel theory of NPOs as part of the IP ecosystem.'
--Mark A. Lemley, Stanford Law School, US
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