FAIR Points: From sdo:LearningResource to FAIR Digital Object

From Pirates to Patriots: Fair Use for Digital Media

Optimistic Fair Exchange of Digital Signatures Optimistic Fair Exchange of Digital Signatures

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FAIR: Fair Audience InfeRence

Given the recent changes in the policy governing Internet content distribution, such as the institution of per listener royalties for Internet radio broadcasters, content distributors now have an incentive to under-report the size of their audience. Previous audience measurement schemes only protect against inflation of audience size. We present the first protocols for audience measurement that...

Fair Is Not Fair Everywhere.

Distributing the spoils of a joint enterprise on the basis of work contribution or relative productivity seems natural to the modern Western mind. But such notions of merit-based distributive justice may be culturally constructed norms that vary with the social and economic structure of a group. In the present research, we showed that children from three different cultures have very different i...

How Fair is Fair Trade?

This paper investigates to what extent fair trade programmes, are indeed ‘fair’. This is accomplished by comparing fair trade with free trade and protectionist trade regimes on their compliance of the criteria set by the fair trade movement itself. This comparison is made using comparative cost based and economies of scale models. It is found that whether or not fair trade is superior to free t...