some comments and questions:

Should all public property revers to a commons? to which one? and under what institutional regime?

It seems to me that we are very early in this struggle, and that what is on the order of the day for moment is the ‘freeing of the data’, which is a little different than putting the TV itself under ‘peer property’. In this modified scenario, it is the ‘data’ of the state tv which are put in a commons format, universally accessible to all. This is a fight which has been fought in several countries, creates a connection with existing movements, and has a record of experience and success, rather than to call for a as-yet-untried solution, for which there is no precedent.

The difference is that TV production is expensive, scarce, and therefore best handled by public property under a democratic regime; however once produced, the data become distributable at marginal cost and therefore should be available at all.

The arguments for open data, ‘freeing public data’, is the following: the public property of the state television has been realized by the money of all citizens, and should therefore be accessible to all citizens without extra payment, since they already payed for it.
This is the moral argument.

The pragmatic argument, against those that say that privatising and selling brings in income, is that it is in fact much more interesting financially, to free the data, as this create a thriving and innovative market (see google earth or gps for that matter) but of course also a thriving social usage, while selling to a few select companies, in fact excludes many of these possibilities. It creates monopolies, at best creates a tiny market, and no social usage at all.

see open access to government information, here at http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Data

also:

* Free Our Data (The Guardian technology section), http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/index.php