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8 Economic Overview of Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Scientific and Technical Information
Pages 29-32

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... Easier access implies easier knowledge creation. ECONOMICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS Where do intellectual property rights (IPRs)
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... IMPACT OF INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS What have the new ICTs done to change the balance? The new ICTs are different techniques for storing, searching, sorting, and rearranging information.
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... As a result public research becomes a lot more like private research, especially with regard to intellectual property rights. There has been a huge increase in the number of university patents in the last decade.
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... At more or less the same time, financial issues create incentives to close information and to demand stronger protection for it. Given that these changes argue in opposite directions for what we should do with the IPR regime, it is possible that the right thing is to do nothing.
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