New approaches to
intellectual property in
the age of web 2.0
Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 South Africa licence

‘In the new economy,
information is the
scarce resource’

‘Downloading music for
free is piracy’

(1)
Some basic economics of
information production and
innovation

a) Characteristics

a) Characteristics
• Non-rival

a) Characteristics
• Non-rival
• Both the input and output of
its own production process

b) information production
strategies