Ｃｏｐｙｒｉｇｈｔ与Ｃｏｐｙｌｅｆｔ的经济学分析

Copyleft是一种全新的知识产权理念,它将知识产品的权利对外开放,对传统的版权（Copyright）制度提出了挑战,引起人们的广泛关注。通过从经济学角度对Copyright及Copyleft制度进行了比较分析,认为Copyleft满足了网络社会知识集体生产的需求,是对Copyright的超越与补充;两者都是人们在利益最大化原则下对知识产品产权形式的理性选择,并将长期共存。

Economic analysis of Copyright and Copyleft

Copyleft is a new intellectual property rights idea.It makes the intellectual property rights open,challenges the traditional copyright system and attracts wide attention.This paper makes a comparative analysis of copyright and copyleft system from the perspective of economics.It suggests that copyleft meets the demand of knowledge collective production in internet society,and is transcendence and complementary of copyright system.Both copyright and copyleft are rational prop-erty form choices under the pro...