Days before Christmas, with hardly any notice in the national press, the Federal Highway Administration quietly issued a final rule in the Federal Register.
Stealing the Future
One of the easiest ways to defeat the commons is to make it illegal before it can get a foothold. That’s the apparent strategy of Thomson Reuters, the giant information company that is struggling to compete with a popular open-source bibliographic software tool, Zotero.
One of the easiest ways to defeat the commons is to make it illegal before it can get a foothold. That’s the apparent strategy of Thomson Reuters, the giant information company that is struggling to compete with a popular open-source bibliographic software tool, Zotero.
The Birth of a Poop/Drug Cartel?
I’ve always been amazed at the things and activities around which commons have been unexpectedly developed – noncommercial theater, humanitarian rescue maps, specialized scientific microscopes.
I’ve always been amazed at the things and activities around which commons have been unexpectedly developed – noncommercial theater, humanitarian rescue maps, specialized scientific microscopes.
Using the CSA Model for Jazz Performance
How commoning reaches into the most unlikely realms of life.
How commoning reaches into the most unlikely realms of life.
A Bold Agenda for Treating Land as a Commons
The privileges of land ownership are so huge and far-reaching that they are generally taken as immutable facts of life – something that politics cannot possibly address.
The privileges of land ownership are so huge and far-reaching that they are generally taken as immutable facts of life – something that politics cannot possibly address.
Who Owns the Million Dollar Baseball?
Modern capitalism has the conceit that only individual property owners create wealth and they therefore deserve all the rewards.
Modern capitalism has the conceit that only individual property owners create wealth and they therefore deserve all the rewards.
The Sharing Society’s Vibrant Forum for Studying Cooperation
While there are many ways that academics now study commoning, few show the broad-minded enthusiasm, scholarly engagement, and political awareness that I encountered at the Sharing Society’s international conference in Bilbao, Spain.
While there are many ways that academics now study commoning, few show the broad-minded enthusiasm, scholarly engagement, and political awareness that I encountered at the Sharing Society’s international conference in Bilbao, Spain.
Localism as a Fulcrum for Global Change
The Great Transition Initiative recently hosted one of the most thoughtful, robust exchange of ideas about “localism” that I’ve seen in a long time.
The Great Transition Initiative recently hosted one of the most thoughtful, robust exchange of ideas about “localism” that I’ve seen in a long time.
‘Free, Fair and Alive’ Is Now Published!
Our book is a foundational reconceptualization of the commons as a living social system.
Our book is a foundational reconceptualization of the commons as a living social system.
The Economist Magazine Gets Religion on the Commons
The Economist magazine seems to have embraced the commons.
The Economist magazine seems to have embraced the commons.
Gifts Beget Gifts: The Book Inspires the Film
How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World
How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World
On the Commodification of Human Discovery
The essays in the volume take on some of the ritual catechisms of the IP bar, free-market economics and western modernity by reminding us that all creativity and knowledge are ultimately based in social life.
The essays in the volume take on some of the ritual catechisms of the IP bar, free-market economics and western modernity by reminding us that all creativity and knowledge are ultimately based in social life.
The Blockchain: A Promising New Infrastructure for Online Commons
Blockchain technology is significant because it can validate the authenticity of an individual bitcoin without the need for a third-party guarantor such as a bank or government body.
Blockchain technology is significant because it can validate the authenticity of an individual bitcoin without the need for a third-party guarantor such as a bank or government body.
Benkler on the Uber-ification of Services
The big challenge today, he argued, is that the social and the political have diverged, as demonstrated by the Occupy movement.
The big challenge today, he argued, is that the social and the political have diverged, as demonstrated by the Occupy movement.
LabGov Pioneers the Paradigm of City as Commons
The Bologna project is the brainchild of Professor Christian Iaione of LUISS University in Rome in cooperation with student and faculty collaborators at LabGov, the Laboratory for the Governance of Commons.
The Bologna project is the brainchild of Professor Christian Iaione of LUISS University in Rome in cooperation with student and faculty collaborators at LabGov, the Laboratory for the Governance of Commons.
Defending Free Software Against Privatizers
The traditional answer has been copyright-based licenses such as the General Public License, a legendary legal hack on copyright law that ensures the perpetual “shareability” of all licensed code.
The traditional answer has been copyright-based licenses such as the General Public License, a legendary legal hack on copyright law that ensures the perpetual “shareability” of all licensed code.