Title :
Intellectual property and open systems
Author :
Mason, Richard O.
Author_Institution :
Edwin L. Cox Sch. of Bus., Southern Methodist Univ., Dallas, TX, USA
Abstract :
Arguably, the most profound issue in designing and governing cyberspace focuses on intellectual property. Is cyberspace to be created as a common space - belonging to and used freely by the community as a whole - or is it to be partitioned into a multitude of proprietary closed boxes that are owned and sold, distributed, modified and used only according to the owner´s whims? This paper discusses answers to this question.
Keywords :
industrial property; information networks; open systems; common space; community ownership; community use; cyberspace; distribution; intellectual property; modification; open systems; proprietary areas; selling; Containers; Control systems; Intellectual property; Open systems; Peer to peer computing; Protection; Stress; Tracking; Trademarks; Web sites;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 2002. HICSS. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1435-9
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.2002.994368
