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Scale Free Law:  Network Science and Copyright Andrés Guadamuz González  AHRC Research Centre for Studies in  Intellectual Property and Technology Law
Raising Leviathan? Or what do Newton, Hobbes and Smith have in common?
Random social networks
Scale-free social networks
Distributions “ Bell” Distributions Power Law Distributions
Random and scale-free networks
The Internet
Normal topologies
Scale-free topologies
Characteristics of scale-free networks ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Six degrees of interdisciplinary collaborations
Six degrees of… sexual contacts?
Six degrees of… yeast proteins?
Long tail economics
What about copyright law? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
ISP: Six degrees of one web sites
New copyright policies for the long tail
P2P is good for the tail Source: David Blackburn,  Online Piracy and Recorded Music Sales (2004)   165,054 133,983 99% 47,357 45,255 95% 26,934 26,531 90% 9,831 10,110 75% 2,851 2,852 50% 745 757 25% 277 281 10% 166 170 5% 70 73 1% Sales with 30% less file-sharing Actual Sales Percentile
P2P network map
Cascading failures
Networks operate in a deterministic manner
Thank you [email_address]

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