Social scientists envisage that the impending era of information technology will be a period marked by a transformation from an economy based on physical scarcity to one grounded in intangible rarity, ie, an economy in which tangible property is increasingly marginal to the exercise of economic exchange relationships and is gradually replaced by seamless one-to-one transactions between firms and consumers. This transformation has caused a drastic reduction in the cost of production and distribution of things and the disentanglement of informational content from physical goods, culminating in the establishment of social networks where ownership of physical objects is superseded by access to information … (more)
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Adrian Kuenzler, ‘Intellectual property on the cusp of the intangible economy’, Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpab042. Published: 3 May 2021.
First posted 2021-05-10 08:00:45
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