"The peer production license is an example of the Copyfair type of license, in which only other commoners, cooperatives and nonprofits can share and re-use the material, but not commercial entities intent on making profit through the commons without explicit reciprocity"
https://civicwise.org/peer-production-
licence-_-human-readable-summary/
I kicked one off, if you’re interested! – https://www.indieforums.net/threads/c1c36e81a755848c.html
https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/wiki/Exclusive-lists
Nice article about building governance layers into platforms. Following Elinor Ostrom’s 8 principles for managing a commons. The part that resonated most for me on first reading is the need to understand the many patterns of governance that exist. From there we can move from the simple defaulting to private property based models.
https://www.glizzan.com/2020/03/04/governing-the-information-commons.html
"There is never finality in the display terminal’s screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre"
“To say nothing of the impact on jobs: landfilling a kiloton of ewaste creates <1 job; recycling that waste creates 15 jobs, while repairing it creates 200 good, local jobs that can’t be offshored (you don’t send a phone overseas for repair).”
"norms around ownership are so taken for granted that even projects expressly devoted to empowering users by wrestling ownership and control from big companies still encode these norms."
https://www.glizzan.com/2020/03/04/governing-the-information-commons.html