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It is being driven by [[collective intelligence]] respectivly the wisdom of crowds and is conceptionally related to knowledge communism as it was defined by [[Robert K. Merton]], according to whom scientists give up [[intellectual property rights]] in exchange for recognition and esteem. |
It is being driven by [[collective intelligence]] respectivly the wisdom of crowds and is conceptionally related to knowledge communism as it was defined by [[Robert K. Merton]], according to whom scientists give up [[intellectual property rights]] in exchange for recognition and esteem. |
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A main principle of the knowledge commons is that the traditional "[[copyright]]" is being replaced by "[[copyleft]]"; For using a work under copyleft, no permission is required and no license has to be acquired; It grants all necessary rights such as right to study, use, remix and redistribute an improved work again - under the only condition, that all future works building on the license are again kept in the commons. |
A main principle of the knowledge commons is that the traditional "[[copyright]]" is being replaced by "[[copyleft]]"; For using a work under copyleft, no permission is required and no license has to be acquired; It grants all necessary rights such as right to study, use, remix and redistribute an improved work again - under the only condition, that all future works building on the license are again kept in the commons. |
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Revision as of 09:35, 7 April 2010
The knowledge commons encompass immaterial and collectively owned goods in the information age; Normativly loaded, it promotes free share of knowledge. As the modern commons' ressource is information, the tragedy of the commons no longer has any effect; Naturally, information does not depreciate when being shared with others.
Conceptional Background
The term 'commons' is being derived from the medieval economic system the commons. Today, the commons act as a frame of reference for a number of domains, including Open Educational resources such as the MIT OpenCourseware, free digital media such as wikipedia, creative commons licensed art, open scientific collections such as the Public Library of Science or the Science Commons, Open Source Software and Open Design. It is being driven by collective intelligence respectivly the wisdom of crowds and is conceptionally related to knowledge communism as it was defined by Robert K. Merton, according to whom scientists give up intellectual property rights in exchange for recognition and esteem.
copyleft
A main principle of the knowledge commons is that the traditional "copyright" is being replaced by "copyleft"; For using a work under copyleft, no permission is required and no license has to be acquired; It grants all necessary rights such as right to study, use, remix and redistribute an improved work again - under the only condition, that all future works building on the license are again kept in the commons. The most popular applications of the 'copyleft'-principle are the GNU Software Licenses (GPL, LGPL and GFDL; by Free Software Foundation) and the share-alike licenses under creative commons.
See also
- Public ownership
- Open Source
- Open Design
- Commons
- OpenCourseware
- Open Content
- Collective Intelligence
- Copyleft
- Robert K. Merton
- GNU
- Creative Commons