Non profit organizations and the intellectual commons / Jyh-An Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Jyh-An.

Series:

National Chengchi University legal studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nonprofit organizations--Philosophy.

Nonprofit organizations.

Intellectual property.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Over the past twenty years, a number of non-profit organizations (NPOs), such as Creative Commons, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Free Software Foundation have laid essential building blocks for intellectual-commons as a social movement. Through a detailed description of these NPOs and a series of in-depth interviews with their officials, this book demonstrates that NPOs have provided the social structures that are necessary to support the production of intellectual commons. By illustrating NPOs' role in shaping the commons realm, this book provides a new lens through which to und

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-91317-8

1-78100-158-8

OCLC:

823726134