[Cc-uk] Wealth of Networks - Interview with Yoshai Benkler
Christian Ahlert
info at openbusiness.cc
Mon Apr 24 10:50:28 EDT 2006
OPENBUSINESS.CC Interview
Yoshai Benkler, professor of law at Yale, has given an interview for
OpenBusiness.
The interview explains some of his thoughts he has written about in
his new book “The Wealth of Networks”. Most appropriately the book is
published under a Creative Commons license.
From GNU-Linux to Wikipedia to collaborative platforms for the
creation and distribution of music, text, and moving image,
creativity is flourishing in online networks. In the sector of
information, knowledge, and cultural production, the networked
environment has brought together the imagination and productive
powers of individuals to work on new and unique outputs.
But according to Yoshai Benkler traditional economics shaped
industrial norms has failed to explain the emerging pattern of open
production. Against this context he introduces the concept of commons
based peer production driven by non-monetary and non-propietary
incentives. OpenBusiess of course had to ask where the money in this
context is.
For more go to www.openbusiness.cc
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