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Creative Commons at the Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues Congress
by tal UncategorizedLast month, CC participated in the yearly SERCI congress, which took place in Bilbao, Spain. SERCI is the Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues. The SERCI congress is therefore intended to allow researchers to discuss their ongoing work with their peers and to further academic alliances between them for the benefit of future research…
CC's Contribution to Welfare, Field-by-Field: The Separate Contribution to Art
by tal UncategorizedLast time on the CC blog I was sharing my thoughts about the evaluation of CC’s contribution to Collaboration and Sharing. There was a part there in which I was making the point that it is an impact which is distinctly challenging for estimation. Well, my full hearted belief that that analysis is, in fact,…
CC's Contribution to Welfare, Field-by-Field: The Separate Contribution to Collaboration & Sharing
by tal UncategorizedYou have probably already noticed that through this series of posts we are proceeding along a trend from general high-level questions to the more practical ones of measurement and evaluation. So, it shouldn’t surprise you that our next nuts-and-bolts step is to start touring the different fields in which CC is active and analyzing its…
Investigating CC's Welfare Impact: Quantity, Quality and Variability Measures
by tal UncategorizedCC has recently started thinking more rigorously about its contribution to the world. See the first, second and third posts in this series for an introduction. In my former post I spent quite a few words trying to explain where I believe CC should and shouldn’t venture looking for the proper metrics that will efficaciously…
Investigating CC's welfare impact, the second step
by tal UncategorizedCC has recently started thinking more rigorously about its contribution to the world. See the first and introductory posts in this series. After I found what I believe to be a satisfactory formulation for what CC actually does, which divides the CC enterprise into three planes, transactional, institutional, and normative, as I described to you…