Don Tapscott And Anthony D. Williams

Traditional forms of intellectual property confer the right to exclude others from distributing a creative work. Peer production is more or less the opposite. Peer production is more or less the opposite. Communities of producers typically use "general public licenses" to guarantee users the right to share and modify creative works provided that any modifications are shared with the community. By opening up the right to modify and distribute, these open source licenses allow larger numbers of contributors to interact freely with larger amounts of information in search of new projects and opportunities for collaboration.