Digital Libraries: Intellectual Property and Economic Issues

Some General Pointers

• Brian Kahin's overview of Institutional and Policy Issues in the Development of the Digital Library
• Paul Resnick's work on The Role of Brokers in Electronic Commerce
• John Perry Barlow's Wired essay on The Economy of Ideas

For a much more comprehensive set of pointers, see Hal Varian's page on Economics and the Internet.

Pricing Information Resources

The prospect of using market-based mechanisms for allocating information and computational resources presents many complicated, confusing, and sometimes contentious issues. Hal Varian and Jeffrey MacKie-Mason answer Some FAQs about Usage-Based Pricing. Their discussion is in the context of pricing the internet, but most of the concepts are applicable more generally.

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