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Appropriation strategies: Appropriation strategies are tactics used by individuals or groups to claim ownership or control of resources or spaces that were previously considered unavailable or inaccessible. Appropriation often involves a process of reinterpretation, giving new meaning and value to things that were previously disregarded or marginalized. See also Cultural tradition, Culture, Cultural values, Cultural freedom.
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Yochai Benkler on Appropriation Strategies - Dictionary of Arguments

Benkler I 49
Appropriation Strategies/Benkler: The diversity of appropriation strategies adds one more kink (...). Consider the following very simple hypothetical. Imagine an industry that produces “infowidgets.” There are ten firms in the business. Two of them are info widget publishers on the Romantic Maximizer model. (>Terminology/Benkler
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Moreover, the increased appropriability in the exclusive-rights market will likely shift some firms at the margin of the nonproprietary business models to adopt proprietary business models. This, in turn, will increase the amount of information available only from proprietary sources. The feedback effect will further accelerate the rise in information input costs, increasing the gains from shifting to a proprietary strategy and to consolidating larger inventories with new production. >Exclusive Rights/Benkler.

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Benkler I
Yochai Benkler
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom New Haven 2007


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