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Section A: Introducing the Commons

Defining the Commons

The commons as an ancient paradigm of human generativity: anthropology, evolutionary sciences, Roman law, Magna Carta, English and European commons. [John Clippinger, Peter Linebaugh, Lewis Hyde]

Varieties of commons: natural resources, social systems, civic spaces, digital communities

The commons as a socio-economic mode of production that is neither governmental nor market-based – an activity that combines resource, community and social protocols to meet collective needs in a different way.

The Internet as a hosting infrastructure for digital commons (Internet history, design protocols, net neutrality).

Enclosures of the digital commons

Expansions of copyright, trademark and patent law over the past two generations, especially with the rise of the Internet. How copyright law has expanded, and its false equation with “property.” Other copyright myths. The implications of enclosure for creativity, tech innovation, democracy and culture. William Patry, Lawrence Lessig, Jessica Litman, James Boyle, David Bollier.

New technological controls over the flows of information. [Corey Doctorow, Fred von Lohmann, others]

The Rise of the Digital Commons

Internet platforms and applications as hosts for new digital commons: the blogosphere, collaborative websites, social networking, open access and design communities, and more.

The digital commons as a new/old paradigm of human production and culture. [Richard Stallman, Yochai Benkler, Jonathan Zittrain, Lawerence Lessig.]

Varieties of digital commons. [Mathieu O’Neill, David Bollier, Lessig].

The re-invention of the public domain and commons. [Elinor Ostrom, Charlotte Hess, David Lange, Pamela Samuelson, David Bollier]

Section B: Introducing Peer Production

Defining Peer to Peer

  • Chapter editor: Michel Bauwens
  1. Technological vs. sociological definitions of peer to peer (mb)
  2. Legal definition
  3. Defining Peer Production, (mb)
  4. Yochai Benkler on Commons Based Peer Production (yb ?)
  5. Advantages and Limitations of Peer Production (Ignacio de Castro)
  6. Post-Benkler: Critiques and Discussions (Mayo Fuster Morell)
  7. P2P in relation to the Commons

Comments and suggestions

  • suggested paper --Madison, Michael; Frischmann, Brett M.; Strandburg, Katherine J. “Constructing Commons in the Cultural Environment.” Legal Studies Research Paper Series no. 2008-26 (2008): 1-47.
  • Fuster Morell's critique to Benkler: There is the need to incorporate the governance (and the interface with the external) into the analysis. Commons can be applied to peer production only under certain governance conditions that assure a commons governance; not to any type of peer production as Benkler does. At Fuster Morell, M. (Ed.) (2009) Organizational principles and political implications of free culture: A reader. International forum on free culture – Barcelona October 30 2009. http://www.networked-politics.info/?page_id=212
  • Good point in general, but just FYI, the way I see it, Benkler *does* seem to be pretty careful to distinguish between "peer production" and "commons based peer production", at least in his recent writings on the subject; see discussion of terminology at the top of http://pad.p2pu.org/marisa-comments (part of an dialog between myself and Marisa Ponti).

Domains of Peer Production

  • Chapter editor: Franco Iacomella
  1. P2P as infrastructure and network topology
  2. Code (FLOSS)
  3. Research
  4. Knowledge and Culture
    1. Ecology of user-generated content
    2. Online creation communities http://www.onlinecreation.info/?page_id=17 (Mayo Fuster Morell)
    3. 3 strands of the free culture movement (felix stadler ?)
  5. Designs (massimo menichelli ?)
  6. From Designing to Making (massimo menichelli? mb?)
    1. Fabbing, RepRap (erik de bruiyn? wrote thesis on topic)
  7. The peer production of politics and policy (mb)

Characteristics of Peer Production

  • Chapter editor: Michel Bauwens and/or Axel Burns and/or Felix Stadler
  1. Distributed networks / comparison with other models, topologies
  2. Autonomy
  3. No forced cohesion
  4. Asynchronous
  5. Meritocracy (Felix Stadler)
  6. Modularity & Granularity

Comments and suggestions

Inputs: Fuster Morell, M. (2010). Participation in Online Creation Communities: Ecosystemic Participation?. The politics of open source. Journal of Information Technology & Politics (JITP). 6 & 7 May 2010. University of Massachusetts Amherst. Availeble at http://politicsofopensource.jitp.net/sites/politicsofopensource.jitp.net/files/papers/Fuster_1.pdf

Section C: Governance, Regulations and Property Formats

Governance and communities

  1. The ecology of peer production (Mayo Fuster Morell)
  2. The governance of communities (Mathieu O’Neil)
  3. Peer leadership (Philipp Schmitt)
  4. The governance of commons goods (david bollier?)
  5. Relations between communities and providers (Mayo Fuster Morell)
  6. Transnationalization processes (sigrid quack)
  7. Relations between governance entities and business (?)
  8. Co-creating policies

Licensing and Propertarian Aspects

  1. Intellectual property introduction
  2. Licencing
    1. Copyleft licensing
    2. Other forms of free licensing
  3. Reclaiming the Public Domain
  4. Intellectual Property abolition
  5. Common property vs. private property (kevin carson? poor richard? david bollier ?)
  6. The properties of property (kevin carson? poor richard? david bollier ?)

Section D: Economical aspects

The Micro economics of Peer Production

  • Chapter editor:
  1. The economic model of peer-production (IC).
  2. Fully free knowledge based business models
  3. Open core and dual licensing models
  4. Platform providers
  5. Revenue generation without exchange (donations, ...)
  6. Free-Open design & payed physical production
  7. Relations between communities and business (mayo fuster morell)

The Macro economy of Peer Production

  • Chapter editor: Michel Bauwens
  1. Peer production in the context of civil society and the commons, business and capitalism, and the state and public authorities (mb)
  2. Economic value of peer production (Ruediger Glott)
  3. Crisis of value debates (adam arviddson, mb?)
  4. Traditional political economy (Value theory) in relation with peer production
  5. P2P and globa-local governance

Sustainability models

  • Chapter editor:
  1. Incubator strategies (osbr editors ?)
  2. Open source and open access commons regions
  3. Cooperatives (julen ixturbe?)
  4. Production controlled by workers (julen ixturbe)
  5. Innovation: free access to research over technologies (e.g.: free spectrum)
  6. Global access to End2End / neutral networks – like non controlled/filtered/limited Internet

Politics and regulations

Chapter editor: (Brian Holmes ?)

  1. Hacking and Politics (E. Gabriella Coleman ?)
  2. Open source vs. free software (E. Gabriella Coleman ?)
  3. Filesharing controversies (volcker grassmuck)
  4. Network politics and Internet governance conflicts
  5. Free culture movement (felix stalder, mayo fuster morell)
  6. Autonomy vs. Cooptation
  7. The emergence of Commons-centered politics (mb?)

Section E: Case Studies

Case studies and sectoral applications

  • Chapter editor:
  1. Commons, Networked and P2P
  2. Agricultural (Food / Fuel / Floriculture / Fiber / Forestry) Systems (Sam Rose, Steve Bosserman)
  3. Business Ecosystems (Sam Rose, Steve Bosserman)
  4. Local Economies (Sam Rose, Steve Bosserman)
  5. Open Government (James Burke)
  6. Education (Wouter Tebbens)
  7. Open collaboration online (Mayo Fuster Morell)
  8. P2P Urbanism (Niko Salingaros)

Individual Research Projects

Student personal final project on a topic of choose. Valid presentation type includes:

  • Paper / Article
  • Visual presentation
    • Lecture in video
    • Audiovisual presentation or material
    • Graph or visualization / Info-graphic
  • Expansion of some topic in the course
  • Study and research of a new case
  • Proposal for a project development
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