Brett M. Frischmann is Professor of Law and Director of the Intellectual Property and Information Law Program at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University. He is the author of Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources (Oxford, 2012) which won the 2013 PROSE Book Award for the best book in law and legal studies. He is also co-author of Cyberlaw: Problems of Policy and Jurisprudence in the Information Age (4th edition, 2011).

Michael J. Madison is Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Innovation Practice Institute at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where he writes and teaches about information law and theory, along with various disciplines of intellectual property law, contracts and commercial law, and property law. He is the co-author of The Law of Intellectual Property (4th edition).

Katherine J. Strandburg is the Alfred B. Engelberg Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law and Faculty Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy, where she teaches and writes about intellectual property law, especially as it intersects with user and commons-based innovation, and information privacy law. She is a co-editor of several books on intellectual property and information privacy law and policy, and she regularly authors amicus briefs on these subjects.

Yochai Benkler, Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, and Faculty Co-Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School

Daniel H. Cole, Indiana University, Maurer School of Law

Jorge L. Contreras, American University, Washington College of Law

Can Cui, Professor of Law, NYU School of Law

Brigham Daniels, Associate Professor, Brigham Young University Law School

David Fagundes, Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School

Brett Frischmann, Professor of Law, Yeshiva University, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Michael J. Madison, Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law

Peter B. Meyer, Office of Productivity and Technology, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Cyrus C.M. Mody, Rice University, Department of History

Mayo Fuster Morell, Fellow. Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School

Laura J. Murray, Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Queen's University

S. Tina Piper, Assistant Professor of Law, McGill University

Charlie Schweik, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Sonali K. Shah, University of Washington, Foster School of Business

Katherine J. Strandburg, Alfred B. Engelberg Professor of Law, NYU School of Law

Geertrui Van Overwalle, Professor of IP Law at the University of Leuven (Belgium); recently appointed as Professor of Patent Law and New Technologies at the University of
Tilburg (the Netherlands)

"Governing Knowledge Commons comes at the right time with the right mix of case studies for inferences on when, how, and for how long, commons institutions can provide production incentives while mitigating those for free riding. Increasingly, advances in knowledge, research, and solutions to economic and social problems occur where individual property rights are absent. Common property institutions can make productive cooperation possible, and this volume helps in understanding the linkages between the commons and creativity." -Gary D. Libecap, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management , Economics Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, and National Bureau of Economic Research

"The editors and contributing authors for this work are leaders in the movement to create a better understanding of knowledge commons governance, which holds the promise of leading to greatly improved innovation economics and processes. They are to be commended for creating this really excellent collection." -Eric von Hippel, T. Wilson Professor of Innovation Management, MIT Sloan School of Management

"Around 1985 Richard Stallman invented 'copyleft' to enforce sharing among dispersed computer programmers. Since then many other governed commons have evolved, or been recognized, using the tools of Elinor Ostrom and her co-workers. This valuable work unites structured analysis with case histories to further our understanding of how different sharing communities work. This is crucial information for societies hoping to resolve the dilemmas now afflicting the production, preservation, adaptation, and interplay of intellectual products." -Wendy J. Gordon, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and Professor of Law, Boston University

"This book takes up the challenge of examining the governance of 'knowledge commons' involving the sharing and creation of data, information, and knowledge. It extends the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework developed by Elinor Ostrom to study natural resource commons and applies the adapted framework to study a set of very interesting cases. The result is a fascinating collection of cases studies of knowledge commons ranging from the Galaxy Zoo citizen science/crowd-sourcing project to Open Source Software and the Sourceforge repository." -Tony Hey, Vice President, Microsoft Research