Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 23:30:00 GMT
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UMDL IPE Subgroup

Intellectual Property and Economic Issues
Michael Wellman (Team
Leader), Dept of EECS
Faculty and Staff:
Graduate Students:
External Participants:
Mission Statement
The main responsibilities of this subgroup are
- to provide mechanisms for providing access and managing licenses to use intellectual
property in the digital library, and
- to design and implement facilities for economic
allocation of resources, including
- documents in the collections,
- information services, and
- computation (processing, storage, and transport).
In designing these mechanisms, we seek to maximize the value accruing to
both providers and consumers participating in the UMDL. Our approach will
be to provide an environment whereby the participants engage in
transactions they deem mutually beneficial. This will include a general
framework for negotiation of terms and delivery of information services, as
well as a suite of specific protocols implementing some standard forms of
agreement. We will evaluate alternate mechanisms according to allocation
efficiency, equity, and computational and other transaction costs.
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Updated 25 Jul 96 by Michael Wellman