Commons Based Reciprocity Licenses – P2P Foundation https://blog.p2pfoundation.net Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Fri, 11 Aug 2017 06:12:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 62076519 A Introduction to the Basic P2P Ideas; Part 4: CopyFair Licenses https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/a-introduction-to-the-basic-p2p-ideas-part-4-copyfair-licenses/2015/07/02 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/a-introduction-to-the-basic-p2p-ideas-part-4-copyfair-licenses/2015/07/02#respond Thu, 02 Jul 2015 13:33:36 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=50848 Over the last ten years, the P2P Foundation has produced a sizeable body of material, both original and curated, but none of it is specifically designed as an introduction for newcomers and people who are not so familiar with the P2P approach. Hence Irma Wilson‘s proposal, during a trip which FutureSharp helped organize in South... Continue reading →

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]]> Over the last ten years, the P2P Foundation has produced a sizeable body of material, both original and curated, but none of it is specifically designed as an introduction for newcomers and people who are not so familiar with the P2P approach. Hence Irma Wilson‘s proposal, during a trip which FutureSharp helped organize in South Africa in the two first weeks of June 2015, to produce a number of short videos. With Irma’s assistance, and the help of filmmaker Michel Taljaard, we produced four videos which are being serialised here in the P2P Foundation Blog and which will be compiled in a forthcoming Commons Transition Article.

This fourth highlights the legal and policy suggestions with some emphasis on the CopyFair license

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]]> https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/a-introduction-to-the-basic-p2p-ideas-part-4-copyfair-licenses/2015/07/02/feed 0 50848 A short video on Commons Based Reciprocity Licenses https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/a-short-video-on-commons-based-reciprocity-licenses/2014/09/21 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/a-short-video-on-commons-based-reciprocity-licenses/2014/09/21#comments Sun, 21 Sep 2014 10:17:02 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=41874 Work on developing Commons Based Reciprocity Licenses (or CBRLs, for short) continues apace here at the P2P Foundation. When speaking of these types of licenses, we often find it hard to explain how they fill a niche in the alt. license spectrum, falling somewhere between the straight up copyleft and the popular Creative Commons Non-Commercial License.... Continue reading →

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]]> Work on developing Commons Based Reciprocity Licenses (or CBRLs, for short) continues apace here at the P2P Foundation. When speaking of these types of licenses, we often find it hard to explain how they fill a niche in the alt. license spectrum, falling somewhere between the straight up copyleft and the popular Creative Commons Non-Commercial License.

To that end, I asked Michel Bauwens to condense his thinking on CBRLs into a short (5 minute) video we could share with people, which you’ll find below. It was filmed by our associate Kevin Flanagan and recorded at a break during the Open Everything Convergence held in the Cloughjordan Ecovillage in Tipperary, Ireland.

 

 

Are CBRL’s perfect or will they work? We don’t know, but we believe that we’ll only arrive at an answer by creating them and testing them out. Whatever their viability, they represent a statement that Free/Open Culture shouldn’t be appropriated by capital while the Commons withers, unable to ensure it’s own social reproduction. We’d like to thank Dmytri Kleiner, for his pioneering work in this area, not just for providing a critique of Creative Commons, but for actually getting his hands dirty (along with John Magyar) and creating the first working CBRL, the Peer Production License, which can be adopted right now. In fact, the PPL has already been adopted by a number of collectives, such as Sharelex, Infrastructures.cc, En Defensa del Software Libre and the other  organization I regularly work in: Guerrilla Translation.
I’d also like to acknowledge Primavera De Filippi and Miguel Said Vieira for their excellent critique of the concept in their must-read article: “Between Copyleft and Copyfarleft: Advance reciprocity for the commons“. The P2P Foundation is now working along with Primavera, Annemarie Naylor, Karthik Iyer, Joel Dietz and others to develop new CMRLs partly based on Primavera´s and Miguel’s recommendations.

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