[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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