Intellectual pursuit and the recognition of ideas is a central concept. Copyrights protect the rights of intellectual creators while balancing those rights with the needs for access. As technologies have expanded, and production has become more sophisticated, the legal regulations surrounding their use have become more complex. With the advent of the interactive web 2.0 and increased resource s...

We analyze a model of bargaining over new ideas. The model accounts for the problem of information leakage, i.e., the diffusion of information about the idea before and after the idea is implemented. We analyze the effects of information leakage on the distribution of rents within firms and the firms’ stability to the introduction of innovation. In the model, the distribution of rents in a firm...

The FAIR Principles were designed to improve the findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability of data holdings by humans machines. principles can be applied research information too. We present results discussions that took place during series online workshops with experts on Research Information Guiding Principles. provide high-level criteria how foster findable, accessible, in...

With the emerging needs of creating fairness-aware solutions for search and recommendation systems, a daunting challenge exists evaluating such solutions. While many traditional information retrieval (IR) metrics can capture relevance, diversity, novelty utility with respect to users, they are not suitable inferring whether presented results fair from perspective responsible exposure. On other ...

We consider data dissemination in a peer-to-peer network, where each user wishes to obtain some subset of the available information objects. In most of the modern algorithms for such data dissemination, the users periodically obtain samples of peer IDs (possibly with some summary of their content). They then use the samples for connecting to other peers and downloading data pieces from them. Fo...