Meaning of anticommons | Babel Free

Definitions

The reverse of a commons; a situation in which a resource is subject to fragmented rights, whereby potential users can exclude one another.

Examples

“However, the recent proliferation of intellectual property rights in biomedical research suggests a different tragedy, an "anticommons" in which people underuse scarce resources because too many owners can block each other.”

“A substantial amount of current empirical evidence supports the conclusion that an anticommons has not developed.”

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