Appropriability, communication and social welfare in a knowledge economy

  • Authors:
  • Wilfred Dolfsma

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Information and Communications Technology Law
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Intellectual Property Rights take on a different significance in the knowledge economy and on the internet. Their expanding role is not necessarily a beneficial development for the economy a dynamic welfare analysis indicates. The effects of IPRs is compounded by the newly emerging relations between producers and consumers in which the latter are increasingly acting as dependent co-producers.