Producing information involves producing a nonrivalrous public good with a lot of possible externalities. ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2009)
Even for the nonrivalrous good, destroying the right to exclude has taken away much of the incentive to invest. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It seems to me that saying ideas are a nonrivalrous component of wealth generation is like saying that protons are an (essentially) nonrivalrous component of manufacture. ❋ Unknown (2009)
For Romer knowledge is nonrivalrous and nonexcludable. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The two characteristics of a public good are that it be nonrivalrous and nonexcludeable. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Ensuring that the state only implement good regulations is nonrivalrous, in that if anyone uses their resources to ensure that the state only implements good regulation, everyone benefits. ❋ Unknown (2009)
These sorts of acts may not necessarily do well with the pairing of the free nonrivalrous/expensive rivalrous goods. ❋ Unknown (2007)
And the output of a composer is almost by definition purely nonrivalrous. ❋ Unknown (2007)
If property lawin land and in goodsalso legitimately protects the right to exclude, not just as a way of protecting the right to use but also as a way to give people enough incentive to invest time and effort, then intellectual property law does make sense even if such property is nonrivalrous. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The "intellectual property," the information that constitutes the MP3 file, is not a pure private good, because consumption is nonrivalrous. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Being nonscarce, it is a nonrivalrous good and, as such, it is free. ❋ Unknown (2010)
There are a lot of potential ideas. 2 + 2 = 4 is nonrivalrous. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Technology gradually helps render many goods and services - books and education, to name two - asymptotically nonrivalrous and nonexcludable. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Thus Lessig is careful to distinguish between "rivalrous" resources, like drinking water, in which one person's use by definition competes with another's, and "nonrivalrous" resources, like the English language, which cannot be depleted no matter how many people make use of them. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Lawrence Lessig is careful to distinguish between "rivalrous" resources, like drinking water, in which one person's use by definition competes with another's, and "nonrivalrous" resources, like the English language, which cannot be depleted no matter how many people make use of them. the commons can embody cherished values - indeed, cherished American values - that private property cannot. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In the former sense, there’s a well-defined definition; it refers to goods which are nonrivalrous and nonexcludable. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But there’s no constitutional requirement of or limits on such regulation of nonrivalrous goods. ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2006)
Tom Nachbar, Virginia: Jefferson made today’s argument: intellectual products are not like tangible property because they are nonrivalrous. ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2006)
The analogy doesn’t hold because the secondary use is nonrivalrous. ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2006)
