Table of Contents

Contents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Commons, Intellectual Commons, and their Tragedies 3. Nonprofit Organizations and the Commons Environment 4. Current Nonprofit Organization Theories and their Applications 5. Associating Nonprofit Organizations with the Commons Environment 6. Conclusion Appendices Bibliography Index

About the Author

Jyh-An Lee, Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Reviews

'Practitioners as well as scholars and researchers in intellectual property as well as IT will appreciate the author's quite original perspective NPOs and their role in supporting the production of intellectual commons.'
--Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, The Barrister Magazine'There is no issue more fundamental to the growth of the open source society than a more mature and penetrating understanding of the nature of the nonprofit organization in a digital culture. Professor Lee s book is essential reading to this fundamental topic, beautifully written and brilliantly conceived.'
--Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law School, US'Jyh-An Lee provides the first comprehensive account of nonprofit organizations and their overlooked role in setting (and working around) intellectual property policy. The reader will find a wealth of information and a novel theory of NPOs as part of the IP ecosystem.'
--Mark A. Lemley, Stanford Law School, US