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Who owns the social web?

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User attitudes toward online intellectual property reveal how far social norms have strayed from legal notions of ownership.

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              Communications of the ACM  Volume 60, Issue 5
              May 2017
              101 pages
              ISSN:0001-0782
              EISSN:1557-7317
              DOI:10.1145/3084186
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              • Moshe Y. Vardi
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