IP Profile of non-profit companies in EM
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Research Questions
What are the 5 to 10 biggest non-profit companies in this field?
- How is the market distributed?
- Where are they located? Are there any incentives for specific locations?
- Correlate them with their main outputs (Data. Narratives. Tools)
- Understand and identify cases where these companies are “experimenting” or “adopting” commons based approaches
- Identify these cases and treat them as entities that will also be placed in our mapping device (the quadrants).
- Identify what non-profits are the “Microsofts” of the field and what companies are the “IBMs” of the field.(Use the questionnaire to guide your research when appropriate - Carol will select specific relevant and helpful questions)
Non-profits
- Copyright Clearance Center (CCC)
- "CCC was created in 1978 by a group of authors and publishers. Today, we represent tens of thousands of authors, publishers and creators from nearly every country in the world, and we license the rights to millions of books, journals, newspapers, websites, ebooks, images, blogs and more."
- Article on fair use and the CCC by law professor James Boyle: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/25cf260c-265c-11dc-8e18-000b5df10621.html
- "CCC was created in 1978 by a group of authors and publishers. Today, we represent tens of thousands of authors, publishers and creators from nearly every country in the world, and we license the rights to millions of books, journals, newspapers, websites, ebooks, images, blogs and more."
Bibliography for Item 7 in EM
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