ECC2013/Knowledge Stream/Resources

Readings and other resources related to stream themes to be aggregated here; feel free to add and edit, or suggest via the stream forum.

Categorization of readings is problematic; many are wide-ranging. Feel free to add further headings.

This wiki also has a much more extensive and general reading list related to knowledge commons; this page is intended to be relatively brief and directly attuned to stream themes and participants.

Introductory

These resources give a good general background on free/libre/open/commons knowledge movements, with a more commons-centric approach than is typical for such introductions.

http://freeknowledge.eu/article-the-knowledge-society-from-a-freedom-centred-perspective Wouter Tebbens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg87SR0TRw4 Prabir Purkayashta interviews Lawrence Liang

Ostensibly about Aaron Swartz (nothing new there, in fact it was made shortly after his death), but paints a much larger picture, including that enclosures of knowledge are ancient.

The Unfolding of the Knowledge Commons by Charlotte Hess

Knowledge and Science as Commons chapter, similar material in a video lecture by Prabir Purkayashta

All commons as knowledge commons

http://microfactoria.wordpress.com/2012/06/04/free-knowledge-and-commons-perspectives-for-industrial-production/ Wouter Tebbens

http://newsclick.in/international/commons-active-producer Prabir Purkayashta

The key to the control of capital over production has been its ability to create continuously new knowledge and technology. Its ability create new knowledge that has given big capital its edge over other forms of production. It is here at the heart of capital that creation of new knowledge and technology -- the active commons -- is emerging. This is the active commons driven by the collective brain power of humanity. If capital can no longer control the production of new knowledge, it loses control over technology. Its use of WTO and TRIPS – creating a larger domain of “intellectual property” -- shows not its strength but its weakness. It is its inability to control the physical process of knowledge creation that it now seeks to control it through legal means. That is why this new form of collaborative knowledge creation spells the doom of capital. Even if its death throes are going to be long and painful.

Commons-first strategy for knowledge commoning

http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2011/07/why-we-should---and-can---abolish-all-patents/index.htm Glyn Moody

http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Why-it-s-time-to-stop-using-open-source-licences-1802140.html Glyn Moody

http://freeknowledge.eu/blog/wouter/can-we-liberate-the-market-through-commons-governance Wouter Tebbens

As we saw before, copyright and patent legislation turn ideas and expressions of authorship from commons/public goods into private property. Given their non-rival nature, this is clearly a case of generated scarcities. And a very relevant one in the current industrial societies, where a large part of the formal economy is controlled by these state granted monopolies. … [F]or a commons-based market, a “liberated” one, such monopolies should not exist. Not in the least part to assure people’s freedoms to participate in the market, the threat of patent or copyright litigations should be expelled.

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Global_Summit_2011/CC%27s_role_in_the_global_commons_movement video/presentations of Chuang/Dubosch/Helfrich/Walsh

How could "Creative Commons" be more aligned with and better at commoning?

http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2012/04/30/future-of-copyright/ Mike Linksvayer

Control of knowledge to perpetuate inequality ancient; assert primacy of commons values for info policy; expand options beyond increase/decrease enclosure and commoning within that regime to include pro-commons regulation

Stream reflections

Blog posts, links to discussion, interviews, other resources directly about the ECC2013 knowledge stream.

http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2013/05/09/econommons/

Pre-conference blog post from stream coordinator motivating this resource list.