Legal Commons for the Blockchain

Discussion

"Legal frameworks that support pluralistic commons-based incentive initiatives represent our best chance at meaningfully sustainable ecological revival."

Crypto Law Review:

"What does an even broader “Law Commons” look like — far beyond narrow regimes like IP law, environmental law, the law of the sea, and so on?

Here are some some concrete characteristics:

• open-source geospatial mapping engines & data (e.g., OpenAR Cloud; #EthMaps);
• open-source jurisdictional maps, including private/public jdxns (#EthMaps + #EthLaw);

o* pen-source doctrinal law maps, including all the world’s legislative, regulatory, and public case-specific law (#EthLaw); etc.

This results in a view of view of the tech and law-stacks as mutually-constitutive and complementary.

Importantly, please note how the tech stack is front-running the law stack.

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The key decision point for everyone today is whether we want the tech stack to be dominated by private BigTech corporations (with all the known and yet-unknown problems this produces), or whether we want a tech stack that is maximally resistant to capture by the BigTechBrothers of the world.

The answer should be clear.

Everyone benefits from open-source commons stacks. A world with, say, EthMaps & EthLaw* mapping engines is Pareto optimal to a world without these stacks.

At a minimum, these global databases serve mission-critical redundancy functions, a core utility proposition of projects like OpenStreetMap.

Our legal frameworks must protect global blockchain commons stack developers, because global blockchain commons developers are building technologies that protect us."

(https://medium.com/@cleanapp/law-of-blockchain-commons-3-1668df37f907)