[cc-community] The promise of the commons

P.Hatzopoulos at lse.ac.uk P.Hatzopoulos at lse.ac.uk
Thu Dec 14 04:04:29 EST 2006


New online journal Re-public <http://www.has/> has just published the first part of its special issue " The promise of the commons <http://www.re-public.gr/en> ". The issue explores the openings that the concept of the 'commons' presents for democratic theory and practice . Articles include:

 

 

Richard Stallman - The free software movement <http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=86> 

Free software changes the way value is produced, argues Richard Stallman, because the business or worker can make the software do what he or she wants it to do 

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Douglas Rushkoff - Commons: Creating an alternative value system <http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=85> 

How possible is it for us to create value for one another without the intervention of government or corporate interests? 

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Michel Bauwens - Peer production, peer governance, peer property <http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=87> 
Our current political economy is based on the fundamental mistake that that natural resources are unlimited, points Michel Bauwens. In a P2P-based society, this situation is reversed...   
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Christopher May - Openness, the knowledge commons and the critique of intellectual property <http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=88> 
The rediscovery of 'openness' marks the end of a period when intellectual property seemed to be the dominant paradigm for understanding how knowledge and information might fit into the contemporary information society, says Christopher May. 

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Christos Bouras and Vagelis Kapoulas - Digital commons <http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=92> 
Christos Bouras and Vagelis Kapoulas analyse the extent to which the idea of common ownership has been imprinted in the digital age. 

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All articles of Re-public are published with a Creative Commons license and can be re-printed freely, by acknowledging their source. 



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