{"id":4183,"date":"2003-04-18T11:44:25","date_gmt":"2003-04-18T11:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4183"},"modified":"2003-04-18T11:44:25","modified_gmt":"2003-04-18T11:44:25","slug":"talking-about-the-commons-at-berkeley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4183","title":{"rendered":"talking about the commons at Berkeley"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m off to California, so this blog may have to pause until April 23.<\/p>\n

I’m going to Berkeley to give a talk at the Center for the Study of Law<\/p>\n

and Society (co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology).<\/p>\n

My title is "Building the Electronic Commons,"<\/b> and I<\/p>\n

will be discussing ideas that I have described elsewhere<\/p>\n

on this Website<\/a>, as well as some new thoughts. This is my abstract:<\/p>\n

\n

Legal theorists like Lawrence Lessig, Yochai Benkler, and James Boyle<\/p>\n

have defended various versions of a "commons" theory of cyberspace.<\/p>\n

They argue for reforms that would considerably reduce property rights,<\/p>\n

thereby returning the Internet to its orginal state of benign anarchy<\/p>\n

while enhancing innovation and civil liberties online. I argue that<\/p>\n

this vision is attractive but flawed. It is politically naive, since<\/p>\n

majorities of voters and organized special interests have incentives<\/p>\n

to undermine such an online commons. Also, this vision promotes innovation<\/p>\n

and negative liberty to the exclusion of other values, including democratic<\/p>\n

ones. However, there is another understanding of the "commons"<\/p>\n

that is just as venerable and supported by rigorous theory. This is<\/p>\n

the notion of a commons as a voluntary nonprofit association (or network<\/p>\n

of such associations), governed by rules. I will discuss politically<\/p>\n

realistic ways to enhance the role of such associations in cyberspace.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The talk is scheduled for Monday from 12:30-1:45. Details<\/p>\n

here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m off to California, so this blog may have to pause until April 23. I’m going to Berkeley to give a talk at the Center for the Study of Law and Society (co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology). My title is "Building the Electronic Commons," and I will be discussing ideas that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-and-public-issues"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}