From DMX to Noank: Exploration on Patterns of Balancing Knowledge Sharing and Copyright Protection
Jian Wu · Information Sciences · 2012
The contradiction of knowledge sharing and copyright protection in cyberspace puts the current copyright protection system in predicament.The Berkman Center for Internet Society at Harvard Law School suggests 3 new copyright management patterns,i.e.,DMX,Coop and Noank,to tackle the situation.To summarize and draw the ideas and methods of the 3 patterns,this paper studies the 3 patterns.The origin,the guiding concepts,main components,the operational scheme and evolution process of 3 patterns are introduced and analyzed;the creative points of the 3 patterns and the inspiration for the study of balancing knowledge sharing and copyright protection are summarized.It is found out that the Berkman Center has constructed new patterns to balance knowledge sharing and copyright protection by taking the legality of using digital content freely in cyberspace as the breakthrough point and adopting a corporate strategy over Internet.It further indicates that,since digital content has properties of public goods,new patterns should take this essential feature as the starting point.