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Internet Publishing and Beyond: The Economics of Digital Information and Intellectual Property

Kahin, Brian (contributor); Varian, Hal R. (contributor) - The MIT Press

The rapid growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web is transforming the way information is accessed and used. New models for distributing, sharing, linking, and marketing information are appearing. This volume examines emerging economic and business models for global publishing and...

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Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy

Kahin, Brian (contributor); Foray, Dominique (contributor) - The MIT Press

The revolution in information technology transforms not only information and its uses but, more important, knowledge and the ways we generate and manage it. Knowledge is now seen as input, output, and capital, even if imperfectly accounted for or understood. Many businesses and public agencies...

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Beyond Our Control?: Confronting the Limits of Our Legal System in the Age of Cyberspace

Biegel, Stuart - The MIT Press

This book provides a framework for thinking about the law and cyberspace, examining the extent to which the Internet is currently under control and the extent to which it can or should be controlled. It focuses in part on the proliferation of MP3 file sharing, a practice made possible by the...

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Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture

Gillespie, Tarleton - The MIT Press

While the public and the media have been distracted by the story of Napster, warnings about the evils of "piracy," and … lawsuits by the recording and film industries, the enforcement of copyright law in the digital world has quietly shifted from … the strategic use of encryption technologies to build standards of copyright directly into digital devices so that some …

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Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture

Gillespie, Tarleton - The MIT Press

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Intellectual Property Strategy

Palfrey, John - The MIT Press

organization. Palfrey identifies the essential areas of intellectual property--patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secret …

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Internet Economics

McKnight, Lee W. (contributor); … - The MIT Press

The Internet has rapidly become an important element of the economic system. The lack of accepted metrics for economic analysis of Internet transactions is therefore increasingly problematic. This book, one of the first to bring together research on Internet engineering and economics, attempts...

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In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World

Thackara, John - The MIT Press

We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex World. These are tough questions for the...

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The Laws of the Web: Patterns in the Ecology of Information

Huberman, Bernardo A. - The MIT Press

Despite its haphazard growth, the Web hides powerful underlying regularities--from the organization of its links to the patterns found in its use by millions of users. Many of these regularities have been predicted on the basis of theoretical models based on a field of physics--statistical...

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The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution

Norman, Donald A. - The MIT Press

Technologies have a life cycle, says Donald A. Norman, and they must change as they pass from youth to maturity. Alas, the computer industry thinks it is still in its rebellious teenage years, exalting in technical complexity. Customers want change. They are ready for products that offer...

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