We perceive Information as property; law and economic structures, we argue, make it so. But this perception does not end the questioning. If we believe information is property, the question we must ask is: what kind of property is information? While…
In 2003, I published The Information Semicommons in the Berkeley Technology Law Review. The article’s core claim was based on Henry Smith’s “Semicommon Property Rights and Scattering in the Open Fields.” Smith developed the notion of a semicommons to…