[Reader-list] The promise of the commons - part II

[rajneesh saran]

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> New online journal Re-public (www.republic.gr/en
> <http://www.republic.gr/en> )
> <https://exchange.lse.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.has/>
> has just published the second part of its special issue "The promise of
> the commons ". The issue explores the openings that the concept of the
> 'commons' presents for democratic theory and practice . Articles include:
>
>
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> Lawrence Lessig – Creative Commons: 4 years on
> (http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=96 <http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=96>  )
>
> One of the founders of Creative Commons reviews the success of the
> licences that have become a simple way for authors and artists to express
> the freedoms they want their creativity to carry.
>
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>
> Gunther Teubner - The private/public dichotomy: After the critique?
> (http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=99 <http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=99> )
>
> Gunther Teubner proposes that the originary distinction of public/private
> should be replaced by the notion of polycontexturality.
>
>  _____
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> Diomidis Spinellis - Open source as a paradigm for evolving complex
> systems (http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=97
> <http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=97> )
> Τhough the open source development model is not a panacea, it opens
> exciting new possibilities for expanding our society's commons, argues
> Diomidis Spinellis.
>  _____
>
> Tom Steinberg - Public data, the commons, and democracy in the UK (
> http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=98 <http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=98> )
> Freeing access to public data is a step towards a better functioning
> democracy, argues Tom Steinberg.
>
>  _____
>
> All articles of Re-public are published with a Creative Commons license
> and can be re-printed freely, by acknowledging their source.
>
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