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Bounty Hunters
Map Makers
&
Gold Miners
Metaphors for Designing Fair Intellectual Property Laws
version: 21 October 2006
Copyright 2006 Greg London
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Title of Work: Bounty Hunters
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18 April 2005: first public draft made available
29 April 2005: fix typos (Thanks to Robinson P. Tryon)
26 May 2005: fix typo (Thanks to Richard Eriksson), remove CC images to reduce bandwidth load, use compressed JPEG image to reduce bandwidth.
2 April 2006: fix links to Bruce Lehman's bio that had changed. Added some court cases to "external links" section, changed proposed term solution to 42 years instead of 40 years.
21 October 2006: change character names in story to avoid misunderstandings with initials.
Table of Contents
1 What Should Be? 5
1.1 "What incentive systems should exist in the world?"- Bill Gates 5
1.1.1 "Systems" 6
1.1.2 "Incentive" 6
1.1.3 "Should" 6
1.2 Models and Metaphors 6
1.3 Cake Cutting 7
1.4 A Model / Metaphor for In