A knowledge IPR tool

In Professional Virtual Communities, where each member has a crucial role, it is important to define and regulate the protection of the generated knowledge. Every interaction between members can produce new knowledge and at this level a crucial question arises: who is the owner of the generated knowledge? When a member provides a contribution in a mediated collaboration, or when a professional provides answers in a virtual meeting session, or again when new document has been produced, it is clear that a support for tracking and defining ownership mechanisms is required. This paper addresses these needs, proposing a tool able to handle this situation.