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Information as Property and as a Public Good: Perspectives from the Economic Theory of Property Rights.
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McCain, Roger A. – Library Quarterly, 1988
Reviews the economic theory of property rights and explores four applications of the transaction cost theory of property rights and free distribution in the economics of information: (1) copying technology; (2) computer software and copy protection; (3) satellite television and encryption; and (4) public libraries. (56 references) (MES)
Descriptors: Cable Television, Computer Software, Copyrights, Economics