Bollier : Week 10: New Genres of Collaborative Creativity / Economics of Online Sharing
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The Internet infrastructure, the GPL for software and the Creative Commons licenses have enabled the rise of rich new genres of collaborative creativity, from shared archives and wikis to remix music and the blogosphere. This lecture looks at the “Great Value Shift” catalyzed by distributed media, with readings by Yochai Benkler, Michel Bauwens, David Bolier and a DVD by Kembrew McLeod.
Bollier : Week 8: The Second Enclosure Movement, Copyright, Trademarks & Patents
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The copyright wars against the public domain and fair use have been raging for more than 20 years now. A review of its harm to culture and its general dynamics. Readings by William Patry, David Bollier, and James Beesen/Michael J. Meurer, and a DVD by Carrie McLaren.
Bollier : Week 7: The Atmosphere and Commons Trusts
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Peter Barnes has been a pioneering thinker about how stakeholder trusts might be used to manage the atmosphere more equitably and effectively. Readings from Barnes’ Who Owns the Sky? and Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons.
Bollier : Week 6: Land as a Commons / Water as a Commons
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A look at property rights as applied to land and water, and how certain commons-based approaches such as New Mexican acequias avoid the adverse consequences of market enclosure. Readings by Eric Freyfogle, Maude Barlow, Adam Davidson-Harden and Jose A. Rivera.
Bollier : Week 5: The Dynamics of Modern Enclosure / Governing the Commons
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A survey of modern enclosures as described by Bollier in Silent Theft; the human implicatiions of making resources alienable for market use; and an introduction to Elinor Ostrom’s Governing the Commons. Extra credit: Agnes Varda’s film, The Gleaners and I. Below, Elinor Ostrom and I at a community conference in Bloomington, Indiana
