Supporting Alternative Incentive Mechanisms for Digital Content: A Comparison of Canadian and US Polic

From the abstract: This paper compares the Government of Canada‟s copyright focused approach for encouraging the production of digital content with the U.S. Government's adoption of a range of incentive systems for the production of content through a content analysis of government policy papers....The U.S. National Institutes of Health has taken a leading role in promoting open access publication of research funded with federal monies by requiring deposit of publications resulting from research in the open access repository PubMed Central. The paper concludes by positing that Canada‟s digital economy strategy would be strengthened by providing federal support for alternatives to intellectual property such as open data and open access and lessening the focus on copyright as an incentive digital content production.