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

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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: 

 

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.  
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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. 

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All articles of Re-public are published with a Creative Commons license and can be re-printed freely, by acknowledging their source.