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- Title: Contribution Attribution As the Possible Next Step for "Crowdsourced" Engineering Design and Product Development (Open Source and Proprietary Models of Innovation: Beyond Ideology)
- Author : Washington University Journal of Law & Policy
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 111 KB
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INTRODUCTION Commercial websites that accept customer-generated content from a large number of users--the so-called "crowdsourcing" approach--are generating much interest from customers and researchers alike. Often, the tasks addressed by these websites can be completed by one user with a single effort. The "crowd" effect is realized by having many submissions with many individuals judging them. (1) This Article poses two questions: Can the crowdsourcing model be applied to engineering design and product development? If so, how?