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<DIV>Her work is also and increasingly heavily cited by a small but growing group of law professors and academics (including those working with the Creative Commons movement) who are concerned about the over-extending ("enclosure") of intellectual property rights to private owners.</DIV>
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<DIV>It was definitely educational for me to read her work, when writing about crafting a human rights (rather than private property-based) framework for copyright and other intellectual property.</DIV>
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<DIV>Cheers</DIV>
<DIV>Mary </DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#800080>Mary W S Wong</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV>Professor of Law & Chair, Graduate IP Programs</DIV>
<DIV>Franklin Pierce Law Center</DIV>
<DIV>Two White Street</DIV>
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<DIV>Email: <A href="mailto:mwong@piercelaw.edu">mwong@piercelaw.edu</A></DIV>
<DIV>Phone: 1-603-513-5143</DIV>
<DIV>Webpage: <A href="http://www.piercelaw.edu/marywong/index.php">http://www.piercelaw.edu/marywong/index.php</A></DIV>
<DIV>Selected writings available on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at: <A href="http://ssrn.com/author=437584">http://ssrn.com/author=437584</A></DIV><BR><BR>>>> </DIV>
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<TD><STRONG>From: </STRONG></TD>
<TD>William Drake <william.drake@graduateinstitute.ch></TD></TR>
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<TD><governance@lists.cpsr.org>, "Fiorello Cortiana" <f.cortiana@provincia.milano.it></TD></TR>
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<TD>2/25/2010 12:30 PM</TD></TR>
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<TD>Re: R: [governance] Parminder's exchange with Bertrand</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Hi
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<DIV>She's very deserving (as was Oliver Williamson). At the same time, it's hard not to have mixed feelings about political scientists being tossed into the economics category by the Nobel folks, who apparently think no other social science merits consideration. Especially since economism (or at least the institutionalized fetishism thereof) has done such thorough damage to political science.
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<DIV>Cheers,</DIV>
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<DIV>Bill<BR>
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<DIV>On Feb 25, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Fiorello Cortiana wrote:</DIV><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline>
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>Da:</B> Bertrand de La Chapelle [mailto:bdelachapelle@gmail.com] <BR><B>Inviato:</B> giovedì 25 febbraio 2010 13.44<BR><B>A:</B> <A href="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</A>; Avri Doria<BR><B>Oggetto:</B> Re: [governance] Parminder's exchange with Bertrand<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Dear all,</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>An important element in this debate would be to introduce the intellectual framework developed by Elinor Ostrom (nobel Prize in Economics 2009) regarding Common Pool Resources (CPRs) and their corresponding governance mechanisms.
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<DIV>The fundamental idea is that the classical "tragedy of the commons" paper is simply wrong and that concerned actors (what we call stakeholders) can develop common governance frameworks for the management of common resources.
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<DIV>Although she does not use the term "multi-stakeholder", the spirit is clearly there and she positions CPR Governance systems as between state regulation of the commons and privatization/market mechanisms. </DIV>
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<DIV>I do not have time to detail this here but encourage all participants in this discussion to read "<A href="http://www.amazon.com/Governing-Commons-Evolution-Institutions-Collective/dp/0521405998/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267101669&sr=1-3">Governing the Commons</A>" and "<A href="http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Institutional-Diversity-Elinor-Ostrom/dp/0691122385/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267101721&sr=1-1">Understanding Institutional Diversity</A>", two of her seminal books on this issue. </DIV>
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<DIV>More on that later when I have thee time.</DIV>
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<DIV>Best</DIV>
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