Comments on: Adam Smith 2.0: Emergent Public Goods, Intellectual Property and the Rhetoric of Remix http://clubtroppo.com.au/2009/05/28/adam-smith-20-emergent-public-goods-intellectual-property-and-the-rhetoric-of-remix/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:17:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Welcome to the Government 2.0 Taskforce | Government 2.0 Taskforce http://clubtroppo.com.au/2009/05/28/adam-smith-20-emergent-public-goods-intellectual-property-and-the-rhetoric-of-remix/#comment-359247 Welcome to the Government 2.0 Taskforce | Government 2.0 Taskforce Sun, 19 Jul 2009 04:49:36 +0000 http://clubtroppo.com.au/?p=8517#comment-359247 [...] to the early 1990s (depending on how you define terms). [...] to the early 1990s (depending on how you define terms).

]]> By: Nicholas Gruen http://clubtroppo.com.au/2009/05/28/adam-smith-20-emergent-public-goods-intellectual-property-and-the-rhetoric-of-remix/#comment-358489 Nicholas Gruen Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:53:45 +0000 http://clubtroppo.com.au/?p=8517#comment-358489 Nice to see that emergent public goods getting an airing more widely, <a href="http://www.lessig.org/blog/2009/05/et_tu_kk_aka_no_kevin_this_is.html" rel="nofollow">here </a>and <a href="http://www.wired.com/dualperspectives/article/news/2009/06/dp_opensource_wired0616" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Nice to see that emergent public goods getting an airing more widely, here and here.

]]> By: Jacques Chester http://clubtroppo.com.au/2009/05/28/adam-smith-20-emergent-public-goods-intellectual-property-and-the-rhetoric-of-remix/#comment-358200 Jacques Chester Fri, 29 May 2009 06:50:18 +0000 http://clubtroppo.com.au/?p=8517#comment-358200 But as dd says, every profession has its blind spots, <a href="http://clubtroppo.com.au/2008/10/12/the-software-engineers-cart/" rel="nofollow">including mine</a>. But as dd says, every profession has its blind spots, including mine.

]]> By: Jacques Chester http://clubtroppo.com.au/2009/05/28/adam-smith-20-emergent-public-goods-intellectual-property-and-the-rhetoric-of-remix/#comment-358199 Jacques Chester Fri, 29 May 2009 06:48:39 +0000 http://clubtroppo.com.au/?p=8517#comment-358199 When all you have is a casebook, everything looks like a actionable suit. When all you have is a casebook, everything looks like a actionable suit.

]]> By: derrida derider http://clubtroppo.com.au/2009/05/28/adam-smith-20-emergent-public-goods-intellectual-property-and-the-rhetoric-of-remix/#comment-358195 derrida derider Fri, 29 May 2009 03:17:04 +0000 http://clubtroppo.com.au/?p=8517#comment-358195 Yep, all professions have their blind spots. And a common one for lawyers is an obsession with the process of the law at the expense of its purpose. Yep, all professions have their blind spots. And a common one for lawyers is an obsession with the process of the law at the expense of its purpose.

]]> By: MikeM http://clubtroppo.com.au/2009/05/28/adam-smith-20-emergent-public-goods-intellectual-property-and-the-rhetoric-of-remix/#comment-358194 MikeM Fri, 29 May 2009 00:37:49 +0000 http://clubtroppo.com.au/?p=8517#comment-358194 I assume that the lawyers were obsessing about things like how to fix the free-rider problem at a time when increasing numbers of people are realising that often it doesn't need fixing. The important question is not whether there are free-riders but whether firstly, their activity is sufficient to imperil creation of IP and secondly, even if it might, whether the cost of extracting revenue from them will outweigh the benefit. Then thirdly, if there is a problem, whether innovation can solve it. No lawyer would have ever thought of addressing the music piracy problem by inventing the iTunes music store. Obviously, it doesn't stop piracy but by making music conveniently available at an attractive price, income is generated far beyond what the music industry could achieve by suing its customers. I assume that the lawyers were obsessing about things like how to fix the free-rider problem at a time when increasing numbers of people are realising that often it doesn’t need fixing. The important question is not whether there are free-riders but whether firstly, their activity is sufficient to imperil creation of IP and secondly, even if it might, whether the cost of extracting revenue from them will outweigh the benefit. Then thirdly, if there is a problem, whether innovation can solve it.

No lawyer would have ever thought of addressing the music piracy problem by inventing the iTunes music store. Obviously, it doesn’t stop piracy but by making music conveniently available at an attractive price, income is generated far beyond what the music industry could achieve by suing its customers.

]]> By: Nicholas Gruen http://clubtroppo.com.au/2009/05/28/adam-smith-20-emergent-public-goods-intellectual-property-and-the-rhetoric-of-remix/#comment-358191 Nicholas Gruen Thu, 28 May 2009 13:35:46 +0000 http://clubtroppo.com.au/?p=8517#comment-358191 The footnotes don't seem to have worked too well - there are a bunch of footnotes in the pdf text, but the article in html above was created by saving a word file as an html file in Word. Not too flash I'm afraid. But the best I can manage at present as I'm quite busy. The footnotes don’t seem to have worked too well – there are a bunch of footnotes in the pdf text, but the article in html above was created by saving a word file as an html file in Word. Not too flash I’m afraid. But the best I can manage at present as I’m quite busy.

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