Comments on: Third Enclosures update: can they really enclose relationships in a Process Economy? https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/third-enclosures-update-can-they-really-enclose-relationships-in-a-process-economy/2007/01/06 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Sat, 06 Jan 2007 10:42:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Crosbie Fitch https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/third-enclosures-update-can-they-really-enclose-relationships-in-a-process-economy/2007/01/06/comment-page-1#comment-16379 Sat, 06 Jan 2007 10:42:24 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/2007/01/06/third-enclosures-update-can-they-really-enclose-relationships-in-a-process-economy/#comment-16379 There is no expropriation, except through the delusion that copyright grants the providers of these social spaces control and ownership of the social intercourse.

This delusion may similarly delude other tulipomaniacs into thinking such property is a valuable investment, but then that’s true for a pile of bricks in the tate gallery.

Meanwhile, the social community regards its commercial ‘exploitation’ as highly amusing – though some still get fearful (even if they don’t quite know why).

There is a class of public work that only has value whilst it exhibits all the signs of being unowned and uncontrolled. The fact that there’s some smallprint that states otherwise is inconsequential.

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