At our P2P Foundation wiki we have given some space to developments around equity-based licenses, such as the IANG License, which attempt to incorporate an additional layer of ethical values, centered around equity, in the peer property-based licensing arrangements that protect the common peer production. However, Stephen Merten of Oekonux is of the opinion that… Continue reading
Date archives "October 2007"
Video: “Prometeus – the media revolution”
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Ed Felten on the consequences of the coming infinite storage for music
I’m reproducing a substantial part of an entry by Ed Felten, because it is crucial for an understanding of where technology is heading, and how unsustainable restrictive technologies are in the face of such onslaughts: “sometime in the next decade, we’ll see a $100 device that fits in your pocket and holds all of the… Continue reading
Video: Lessig on “corruption”
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Introducing ‘Ecopyleft’
The following will be of interest to those who are following developments regarding peer property and the governance of peer production projects. According to Patrick Godeau, the creator of the IANG License: “By ecopyleft, I mean the extension of copyleft to the economy of a free work. While copyleft freedoms (to analyze, to modify, to… Continue reading
The politics of search engines, 2
We continue yesterday’s coverage of the Quaero Forum on the politics of search engines, with a interesting discussion between Erik Borra of Open Search, being challenged by Richard Rogers Issue 1: Manipulation vs. spam Rogers: Normally search engine companies argue that their logics are closed and not transparent, because if they were open, the search… Continue reading
Update on the Quaero Forum: the politics of search engines, 1
The forum in Amsterdam is asking the following key questions: • What are the politics of the structure and image of search engines and their technologies? • To what extent have search engines like Google, which started from the ideal of access to information, become the modus operandi of political bias? Can we envisage scenarios… Continue reading
What kind of economy are we moving to? 3. A hierarchy of engagement between companies and communities
The ladder of Participation I have reworked Roger Hart’s Ladder of Participation to account for the different modalities of community-corporate cooperation and engagement, based on the key variable of who controls the overall framework. Indeed, despite its usefullness, I find that Xavier Comtesse’s approach presents a limited view of use of social innovation by corporations… Continue reading
What kind of economy are we moving to? 2. Overview of the main business models
1. The three business models In P2P theory, I distinguish at least 3 business models that are emerging through peer production. One is precisely that: there is now a sharing economy, where people share value, but mostly from motivations of individual expression and recognition, for which they need platforms, which are proprietary, and fund themselves… Continue reading
What kind of economy are we moving to? 1. Overview of attention economy concepts
Time for an overview of the material we have collated for our Encyclopedia. As a reminder, we have a special section for business-oriented material where we focus on the manyfold implications of the emergence of peer production. Our first argument is that there are in fact two economic realms, a sphere for the direct production… Continue reading