Reposted from our sister site Commons Transition, Dan Hancox shares the lowdown on a few projects aiming to bring the Commons to the institutional sphere. As construction noise and traffic hummed in the background, two Turkish women sat on a park bench in Istanbul, talking about what they want from their city’s public spaces: “chit-chats,… Continue reading
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Legal Innovations in Beating the Bounds (cont.), Part III of Law for the Commons
Today’s post is the third in a four-part series derived from my strategy memo, “Reinventing Law for the Commons.” This excerpt continues with Part II, “Legal Innovations in Beating the Bounds,” with “clusters” #5 through #9. The collection of entries here are now posted on a Commons for the Law wiki hosted by the Commons… Continue reading
The Commons and EU Knowledge Policies
One of the great advantages of a commons analysis is its ability to deconstruct the prevailing myths of “intellectual property” as a wholly private “product” – and then to reconstruct it as knowledge and culture that lives and breathes only in a social context, among real people. This opens up a new conversation about if… Continue reading
A Commons Approach to European Knowledge Policy
We stand at a crossroads between a backward-looking regime of proprietary policies based on archaic economic models – and a burgeoning new system that respects the power of innovation and social practices in open networks, inviting us to make the most of an emerging world of knowledge commons. EU policies can help to strengthen the… Continue reading
The European Parliament Focuses on Commons
The European Parliament is formally focusing on the commons paradigm through a new “Intergroup on common goods,” which is part of a larger group known as the “European Parliamentary Intergroup on Common Goods and Public Services.” The group met for the first time on May 26 in Brussels, at the European Parliament. At this early… Continue reading
Is the commons movement becoming a political force in Europe?
Sophie Bloemen on the occasion of the creation of a ‘Common Goods Intergroup’ at the European Parliament: “The commons intergroup ended up joining the already existing one on Public Services and in the process of political shuffling, the name ended up shifting to common goods. So officially referred to as ‘intergroup on commons goods’, it… Continue reading
The Commons – a new European concept? Inaugural meeting of the European Parliament Common Goods Intergroup.
As we gathered for it, this European Parliament Common Goods Intergroup meeting, promised to be intriguing… was the Parliament about to embrace the commons as a template for a more participatory politics? It was indeed a political meeting, with the banners of the four parties who had come together in support of it prominent behind… Continue reading