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Title: Guarding the Commons: How Community Managed Software Projects Protect Their Work
URL: http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/rp-omahony.pdf
Description: Abstract: "Theorists often speculate why open source and free software project contributors give their work away.
Although contributors make their work publicly available, they do not forfeit their rights to it. Community managed software
projects protect their work by using several legal and normative tactics, which should not be conflated with a disregard for or
neglect of intellectual property rights. These tactics allow a project's intellectual property to be publicly and freely available
and yet, governable. Exploration of this seemingly contradictory state may provide new insight into governance models for the
management of digital intellectual property." By Siobh*°n O‚ÄôMahony, February, 2003. (PDF, 31 Pages.)
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