Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 23:30:00 GMT Server: NCSA/1.5.1 Last-modified: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 18:50:51 GMT Content-type: text/html Content-length: 3186 UMDL IPE Subgroup

Intellectual Property and Economic Issues

Team Members (umdl.ipe@umich.edu)

Michael Wellman (Team Leader), Dept of EECS

Faculty and Staff:

Graduate Students: External Participants:

IPE Documents

Mission Statement

The main responsibilities of this subgroup are
  1. to provide mechanisms for providing access and managing licenses to use intellectual property in the digital library, and
  2. to design and implement facilities for economic allocation of resources, including
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