Science, knowledge, and intellectual property: Ten years later. Part 1

The first part of the paper presents the results of theoretical and methodological research based on a relatively new view of the processes of knowledge production as a public good and its subsequent transformation into private, meritorious and normative-public goods with individual and social utility, with a focus on one of the branches of this transformation — the publication of scientific articles. An important feature of this process, distinguishing this type of activity, is due to the problems of intellectual property and copyright. This area of modern science determines the institutional conditions of transformation of knowledge into products of market exchange. The protection of intellectual property realized by the legislation on copyright gave rise to many theoretical and practical problems related to the known consequences of the development of this institution, which limits the dissemination of knowledge and reduces its availability. A special role here belongs to the developing contractual practice of transferring copyrights to publishers, including issues of publication ethics, and the peculiarities of economic relations arising in such a situation, the expedient component of which is the payment of royalties and labor remuneration to reviewers.