Bcm301 The Commons 131009

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Tragedy of the Commons (Past) Digital Property (Present)

Commons (Future?)

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Part One

"Ostrom challenged conventional wisdom

that common property is poorly managed & should be regulated by central authorities or privatized”.

Howard Rheingold via twitter

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Underground, over ground Wombling free, Wombles of Wimbledon Common are we. Making good use of the things that we find,

things that the everyday folk leave behind. - Wombles Theme Song (FilmFair, 1973)‫‏‬

The Wombles

Garret Hardin’s Tragedy

Garret Hardin (1915-2003): Professor of Biology, writing in 1968, published the 'The Tragedy of the Commons', which was concerned with the

‚population problem‛.

Popular Tragedy Since it was published in the journal Science, 30 years ago, ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’ has been employed in debates regarding ecology, environmentalism, health care, economics, population studies, law, political science,

philosophy, ethics, geography, psychology, and sociology.

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The commons of Hardin's tragedy refers to those pastures, fields, fens, forests, rivers and other mutually managed

physical resources that were unbordered and unfenced, but

not always unowned, in the pre-industrial regions of Britain, Scotland and some parts of Europe up until the early 17th century.

Enclosure by law_keven

Enclosure by Privatisation

The law doth punish man or woman

That steals the goose from off the commons, But lets the greater felon loose

That steals the commons from the Goose.

Anonymous folksong protesting by claudiogennari

enclosure (1764)‫‏‬

The enclosure reduced the amount of unused land and increased crop yields on a national scale; in Britain it was the "largest single aggregate landscape change induced by man in an equivalent period of time" (Turner, 1980: 33).

Part TW0

by Lisa_gut_und_b

by Vinay Deep Cordell Hull (October 2, 1871-July 23, 1955)

by Routavelo

by Looking

by i_forbes

Part Three

James Boyle and the intangible commons of the mind by mtowber

Digital Property • Rivalrousness • Intangibility

The digital emphasises the non-rivalrous

qualities of information and cultural goods.

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CreativeCommons.ORG

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by Ian Muttoo

Wired

Commons Issues by © Ahmed Amir

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