{"id":557,"date":"2017-09-26T14:39:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T01:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=557"},"modified":"2017-09-26T14:39:36","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T01:39:36","slug":"the-future-of-the-commons-paul-stacey-open17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/the-future-of-the-commons-paul-stacey-open17\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of the Commons &#8211; Paul Stacey #open17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A commons is &#8220;a community based social system, independent of the state and market, for the long-term stewardship of resources&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Creative Commons publishes an annual <a href=\"https:\/\/stateof.creativecommons.org\/\">State of the Commons<\/a> report. Big growth year on year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>museums and libraries making heavy use of CC for their materials;<\/li>\n<li>open access journals are also growing heavily;<\/li>\n<li>open textbooks (OpenStax Physics etc books now being translated to other languages) and other open education resources<\/li>\n<li>images eg 500px which focuses on high-quality photos from professionals<\/li>\n<li>video eg on vimeo eg short film &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/194276412\">Alike<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>open data eg GeoNet; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/resources.creativecommons.org.nz\/a-quiet-revolution\/\">A Quiet Revolution<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Has morphed from individuals using CC licences to organisations using them.<\/p>\n<p>But have we underpaid attention to the social system around this? The rules around CC are different from the rules for copyright. Permissions are expressed upfront. Instead of just borrow\/return, you can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>retain the copy<\/li>\n<li>reuse<\/li>\n<li>revise<\/li>\n<li>remix<\/li>\n<li>redistribute<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Physical commons &#8211; rivalrous, excludable, depletable, replication cost<\/p>\n<p>Digital commons &#8211; non-rivalrous, non-excludable, non-depletable, replication almost free<\/p>\n<p>Processing speed, bandwidth, storage are doubling every year so there&#8217;s a different economics.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Different way to participate &#8211; crowdsourcing eg through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikilovesmonuments.org\/\">Wiki Loves Monuments<\/a> photo competition; <a href=\"http:\/\/library.nyam.org\/colorourcollections\/\">#ColourOurCollections<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rijksmuseum.nl\/en\/rijksstudio-award\">Rijksstudio<\/a> platform to remix Rijsmuseum content into eg a kimono; or a sleeping mask; or contact lenses &#8211; which get produced and sold in their store.<\/p>\n<p>Initiatives like this increasingly involve and engage librarians.<\/p>\n<p>Expanding physical commons collections eg toy libraries, tool libraries, tie-lending libraries, musical instruments. (However most not being done by libraries.)<\/p>\n<p>Learning commons &#8211; but do we help students find CC-licensed content? do we help faculty not plagiarise&#8230;? Library in Gouda Netherlands has a chocolate factory.<\/p>\n<p>Maker spaces and 3D printing. Vancouver has an inspiration lab &#8211; can borrow instruments, book a studio, edit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Social and economic aspects of building a commons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Common question: Why would I give my work away for free when I could get rich? So wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/madewith.cc\/\">Made with Creative Commons<\/a> to answer this &#8211; a book to show the world how CC is good for business. Interviewed businesses etc across sectors\/around the world to show what they&#8217;re doing, how it works, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Not your &#8216;business as usual&#8217; &#8211; not in it to maximise profit or restrict access, monetise commodities, selling to the highest bidder. Tended to be driven by social good. Viewed customers differently from a typical business &#8211; wanted to establish a personal connection\/relation\/collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>Success\/sustainability = CC + social good + human connection + $$ &#8212; ie Have high-value CC-licensed resources; generate genuine human connection; and then you can have some way of making money on top.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Big picture<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historically three ways to manage resources: the market, the state, and the commons. The commons is perhaps the oldest; appropriated by the state (&#8216;enclosure of the commons&#8217;); given\/taken over by the market.<\/p>\n<p>Some organisations (like Wikimedia) are pure commons. Some (like Arduino) are hybrid commons-market. Then Rijksmuseum is state-commons-market.<\/p>\n<p>You need to understand which part of your operation is which and run it appropriately. The state part and the commons part operate differently, with different norms and rules.<\/p>\n<p>Market: private goods, indirect processes, norms and rules of property; goals are sales, revenue, profit, shareholder return, growth<\/p>\n<p>State: public goods, indirect processes around authority; norms and rules of policies, regulations, laws; goals of quality of life, social and economic wellbeing<\/p>\n<p>Commons: common goods, direct processes, rules and norms of creative commons, goals of participation, distributional equity<\/p>\n<p>Principles of adding value, transparency, attribution, give more than you take, develop trust, defend the Commons<\/p>\n<p>Benefits: access, equity, efficiency, flexibility, participation, reach and impact, lower cost, personalisation &#8211; these can&#8217;t be done by the market. Don&#8217;t put forth a rational based on market rules (eg ROI) it won&#8217;t make sense. Amplify the story of the shift from scarcity to abundance.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to point to economists talking like this, see Doughnut Economics by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kateraworth.com\/\">Kate Raworth<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&#8220;Tragedy of the Commons&#8221; essay often used against the idea of the commons. But the essay was written by someone who&#8217;d never seen a commons. In the real world, people actual speak to each other and balance everyone&#8217;s needs against each others and the commons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A commons is &#8220;a community based social system, independent of the state and market, for the long-term stewardship of resources&#8221;. Creative Commons publishes an annual State of the Commons report. 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