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The Commons Law Perspective, Open Hardware and Digital DIY | P2P Foundation

Blockchain based distributed applications, Commons based licenses, network effects and antitrust legislation and much more in this David Bollier interview.
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Interviewed: David Bollier on Patterns of Commoning | P2P Foundation

Interviewed: David Bollier on Patterns of Commoning | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Shareable's Cat Johnson interviews David Bollier about the Commons Strategies Group new book anthology Patterns of Commoning.
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The Shift from Open Platforms to Digital Commons | P2P Foundation

The Shift from Open Platforms to Digital Commons | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
From open access platforms to managed digital commons: how can we unleash the enormous value that distributed, autonomous production can create.
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Patterns of Commoning is Now Published! | P2P Foundation

Patterns of Commoning is Now Published! | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Patterns of Commoning is arguably the most accessible and broad-ranging survey of contemporary commons in print.
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The Commons Strategies Group in Berlin: 800 Years of Commoning | P2P Foundation

The Commons Strategies Group in Berlin: 800 Years of Commoning | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
A summary from the Commons Strategies Group recent event in Berlin featuring videos with David Bollier, Michel Bauwens and Silke Helfrich
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Who May Use the King's Forest? The Meaning of Magna Carta, Commons and Law in Our Time | P2P Foundation

Who May Use the King's Forest? The Meaning of Magna Carta, Commons and Law in Our Time | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
The relationship between law and the commons is very much on my mind these days.  I recently posted a four-part serialization of my strategy memo, “Reinventing Law for the Commons.”  The following public talk, which I gave at the Heinrich Boell Foundation in Berlin on September 8, is a kind of companion piece.  The theme: …
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Why Is Market Fundamentalism So Tenacious? | P2P Foundation

Why Is Market Fundamentalism So Tenacious? | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
As the neoliberal revolution instigated by Reagan and Thatcher in the 1980 has spread, however, Polanyi has been rediscovered.
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Reinventing Law for the Commons, Part I | P2P Foundation

Reinventing Law for the Commons, Part I | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
What would it look like if commoners could invent their own types of law, consistent with state law, to reliably protect their commons?
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The Rise of Biocultural Rights | P2P Foundation

The Rise of Biocultural Rights | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
The idea of bioocultural rights provides a powerful legal framework for reclaiming land, culture, traditional knowledge and self-governance.
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A New Alignment of Movements? | P2P Foundation

A New Alignment of Movements? | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

In September 2014, the Commons Strategies Group convened a three-day workshop in Meissen, Germany, of 25 policy advocates and activists from a variety of different economic and social movements.  The topic of the “deep dive”:  Can leading alt-economic and social movements find ways to work more closely together?  Can there be a greater convergence and collaboration in fighting the pathologies of neoliberalism? 


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P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Book of the Day: The Transforming History of Land Ownership

“the new book .. describes how the Pilgrims imposed their notions of private property on the land commons in the New World. The consequences – while perhaps inevitable, whether from them or other settlers – were nonetheless pivotal in the future development of America.

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The Aliveness of a Commons: David Bollier's Shareable Interview | P2P Foundation

The Aliveness of a Commons: David Bollier's Shareable Interview | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
The commons is a living organism and that’s precisely what needs to be studied: its aliveness
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Robin Hood Coop, an Activist Hedge Fund | P2P Foundation

Robin Hood Coop, an Activist Hedge Fund | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Now here is an improbable idea:an activist hedge fund. Robin Hood Coop skims market investments to support commoners
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Tools and practices for Commons-Based Platform Cooperatives | P2P Foundation

Tools and practices for Commons-Based Platform Cooperatives | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
« We need to pioneer technical, organizational and financial forms that enable users to mutualize the benefits of their own online sharing ». Excerpted from David Bollier: “Our imaginations and aspirations must begin to shift their focus from open platforms to digital commons. Self-organized commoners must be able to control the terms of their interactions …
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The Commons Law Perspective, Open Hardware and Digital DIY | P2P Foundation

The Commons Law Perspective, Open Hardware and Digital DIY | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Blockchain based distributed applications, Commons based licenses, network effects and antitrust legislation and much more in this David Bollier interview.
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POC21: Eco-hacking a Fossil-Free, Collaborative Future | P2P Foundation

POC21: Eco-hacking a Fossil-Free, Collaborative Future | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
The idea of POC21 is to invent inexpensive, modular household devices, farm tools and energy systems that can be replicated cheaply and shared by anyone.
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Here's What a Commons-Based Economy Looks Like - Commons Transition

Here's What a Commons-Based Economy Looks Like - Commons Transition | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Michel Bauwens focuses on three specific realms crucial to a Commons-Based Economy – ecological sustainability, open knowledge and social solidarity.
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Legal Innovations in Beating the Bounds: Part II of Law for the Commons | P2P Foundation

Legal Innovations in Beating the Bounds: Part II of Law for the Commons | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Initiatives that are trying to transform the legal paradigm or carve out new “protected zones” of enforceable rights within existing legal frameworks.
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Property Rights, Inequality and Commons | P2P Foundation

Property Rights, Inequality and Commons | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
A transcript of David Bollier's talk on how the commons might be a force for reducing inequality.
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The Blockchain: A Promising New Infrastructure for Online Commons | P2P Foundation

The Blockchain: A Promising New Infrastructure for Online Commons | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Behind the superficial public discussions about Bitcoin you’ll discover a software breakthrough that could change the future of commoning on open networks
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The Promise of “Open Co-operativism”

The Promise of “Open Co-operativism” | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

Is it possible to imagine a new sort of synthesis or synergy between the emerging peer production and commons movement on the one hand, and growing, innovative elements of the co-operative and solidarity economy movements on the other?

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