Intellectual Property Norms in Online Communities: How User-Organized Intellectual Property Regulation Supports Innovation

Julia Bauer, Nikolaus Franke, Philipp Tuertscher · 2016 · Information Systems Research

Summary. User-organized intellectual property norms in online communities like Threadless enable innovation by providing legal certainty and protecting creators' work without formal law enforcement. The study identifies an integrated system of established norms that regulate IP use, fostering cooperation and cumulative innovation in anonymous, large-scale communities. These norms-based systems compensate for formal IP law's ineffectiveness online and offer practical guidance for managing crowdsourcing platforms.

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  title   = {Intellectual Property Norms in Online Communities: How User-Organized Intellectual Property Regulation Supports Innovation},
  author  = {Julia Bauer and Nikolaus Franke and Philipp Tuertscher},
  journal = {Information Systems Research},
  year    = {2016},
  doi     = {10.1287/isre.2016.0649},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.2016.0649}
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DOI

10.1287/isre.2016.0649

Countries

Austria, Netherlands

Regions

Europe

Categories

innovation-networks, innovation-theory, general-innovation

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2026-04-28