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"Contents" [2016] ELECD 941; in Riis, Thomas (ed), "User Generated Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016) v

Book Title: User Generated Law

Editor(s): Riis, Thomas

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781783479559

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 5

Extract:

Contents
List of contributors x
Preface xi

1 User generated law: re-constructing intellectual property law in a
knowledge society 1
Thomas Riis
1 Introduction 1
2 Private regulatory models and the fragmentation of law 3
3 User innovation 5
3.1 Heterogeneous demands 6
3.2 Expectation of benefits (profits) 6
3.3 Asymmetric information 7
3.4 The role of lead users 7
4 User generated law 8
4.1 Autonomy spaces 10
5 Phase 1: emergence 12
5.1 Heterogeneous demands 12
5.2 Expectation of benefits 14
5.3 Asymmetric information 18
5.4 The role of lead users 21
6 Phase 2: diffusion 22
7 Phase 3: adoption 24
8 The international dimension 25
9 Prospects for a model on user generated law 26

2 Information abundance and knowledge commons 28
Michael J. Madison
1 Introduction 28
2 Knowledge commons governance 33
3 An illustration: law itself as knowledge commons 35
4 A research framework for understanding knowledge
commons governance 41


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5 The knowledge commons research framework applied 46
5.1 Galaxy Zoo 46
5.2 Best practices projects 49
6 Conclusion 53

3 Collective agreements for the clearance of copyrights ­ the case of
collective management and extended collective licences 55
Thomas Riis, Ole-Andreas Rognstad and Jens Schovsbo
1 Collective agreements 55
2 The emergence of CMOs 56
3 The extension effect (extended collective licences) 58
4 Emergence 59
4.1 The first ECLs 59
4.2 Heterogeneous demands ...