table work
Done: William Irwin Thompson on the Four Cultural Ecologies of the West
To do: Productive Democracy
Law commons
| Commons Type
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Sample Legal Forms
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Sample Enforcement Vectors
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Sample Tensions
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Unsolved Problems
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| Atmospheric / Oceanic
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- Open sea doctrines;
- Deep seabed mining rights; fisheries quotas and accords; global trade law;
- Global administrative law (data-cooperation and sharing for the protection of common resources);
- Liberalism & int'l trade law (WTO & free movement in a "race to the bottom")
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- Nominally governed by IL;
- De facto governed by exercise of fiat enforcement powers on a selective state-by-state and case-by-case basis;
- Formal indeterminacy creates conditions for the necessity of an official “arbiter” of rights
|
'right to fish'
-v-
'polluter pays principle'
'right to protect health, life and wellbeing of citizens and commons'
-v-
'right to free movement of goods'
|
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| Intellectual Commons
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- Open-source standards;
- Creative Commons;
- Liberal copyright/IP licence schemes (patent pools);
- Whistleblowing
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- State-by-state enforcement;
- Emergence of global best practices & norms;
- Lex mercatoria
|
right to use -v- modify
Wikipedia ←→ Wikileaks
right to protect as critical national security infrastructure (Snowden) etc.
|
Censorship
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| Spectrum Commons
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- Wireless spectrum auctions; propertarian rights regimes; negotiated rulemaking;
- Net Neutrality debates
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- 1G–4G (state-by-state);
- 5G (regional);
- Small-but-growing global players (e.g., Starlink)
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Monopolization
BigFirm -v- BigFirm Realpolitik
Great Firewalls
"Collect it all"
|
Capture by Industry;
BigTechBrother
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| Blockchain Commons
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- Freedom of speech;
- Freedom of association;
- Due process rights
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- Strong positive IL basis but mainly state-by-state enforcement;
- Strong contractarian ethos, especially in consensus mechanisms & dispute resolution
|
open-source
-v-
propertarian rights regimes
property -v- contract -v- commons
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Self-Governance;
Cartel Formation;
Centralization;
Capture;
Fragmentation;
etc.
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| Civic Commons
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- "Natural & positive legal participatory rights;
- Right to petition for redress of grievances;
- Due process rights;
- Neighborhood associations;
- HOAs, collective security
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- Municipal enforcement;
- Spotlight effects;
- Nonprofit cooperatives;
- Limited private right of action;
- No meaningful regional / global enforcement
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public -v- private (em. domain)
gross info asymmetries
Sunshine Acts -v- Ag-Gag laws
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