Superdistribution: An Electronic Infrastructure for the Economy of the Future

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Superdistribution is an approach to distributing digital information, in which digital information in all its varieties, including but not limited to computer software and databases, is distributed in a protected form and is freely available at little or no cost. Furthermore, the information can be redistributed without restriction, and superdistribution ensure that information publishers are paid for the use of their products. In 1995, some companies announced plans to open new business based on the superdistribution model. This paper explains the fundamental concepts of superdistribution and discusses the fact that the structure society has evolved for the distribution of tangible goods is inadequate for the distribution of digital information. The paper also describes how superdistribution can bring about the effective and economically rational distribution of digital information and can promote the production of software, both in the form of components and in the form of integrated products. In this paper we describe how superdistribution will provide the electronic infrastructure for this forthcoming economic revolution:. The paper refines and extends our previous paper on this subject, published in Japanese, which received an IPSJ SIG Research Award.
一般社団法人情報処理学会の論文
1997-07-15