Yochai Benkler

Yochai Benkler

Yochai Benkler (* 1964 ) is a law professor at Harvard Law School . His book The Wealth of Networks and the essay Coase's Penguin deal with issues of network production and copyright .

Life

After his military service and a few years in a kibbutz , Benkler completed his Bachelor of Laws at the University of Tel Aviv in 1991 and his Juris Doctor at Harvard Law School in 1994 . He worked for an American law firm from 1994 to 1995 and then, from 1995 to 1996, as a clerk at the US Supreme Court under Judge Stephen Breyer .

In 1996 he became a lecturer ( assistant professor ), then a full professor at the New York University School of Law, with guest stays at Yale Law School and Harvard Law School.

In 2003 he was appointed to Yale Law School. In 2007 he became Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and Co-Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

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Benkler's research interests primarily relate to the joint production of goods and the management of resources in networks with a commons character. He deals with modes of production in the information economy that are based on collective learning and sharing of knowledge ("information sharing"), such as are characteristic of free and open source software or Wikipedia . He describes this as social sharing or commons-based peer production and sees it as a third type of economic production alongside markets and a centrally planned economy.

Benkler elaborates these theses in his book The Wealth of Networks , which is published under a Creative Commons license . In it, Benkler hypothesizes that a culture in which information is freely exchanged could prove to be more economically efficient than one in which innovations are made more difficult by patents and copyright.

Web links

Commons : Yochai Benkler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Benkler's homepage
• Benkler's curriculum vitae
• Chair at Harvard Law School
• Online edition of The Wealth of Networks

Individual evidence

1. ^ Benkler, Yochai: The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom . Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn 2006, ISBN 0-300-11056-1 , p. 515.
2. ^ Benkler, Yochai (2002) "Coase's Penguin, or, Linux and the Nature of the Firm." The Yale Law Journal 112 (3)
3. ↑ Yochai Benkler: “Sharing Nicely”, The Yale Law Journal, vol. 114, p. 273 ff.
4. ↑ Bernd Lutterbeck : “Open Source Communities and Intellectual Property”, PDF  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.