Sharing: Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age



By Philippe Aigrain, with contribution of Suzanne Aigrain







Sharing cultural works benefits authors, culture and public



In the past fifteen years, file sharing of digital cultural works

between individuals has been at the center of a number of debates on

the future of culture itself. Sharing provides a new view of the value

of peer-to-peer sharing of digital works. Taking stock of…

via the Commoning mailing list:

Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:22:26 +0200

Statement by those who occupied the common

28 January…

Sent by Richard Pithouse:

http://www.mahala.co.za/reality/take-back-the-common/



Take Back the Common

Thursday, January 26th, 2012 by Christopher McMichael



This Friday communities around the Cape will march from Athlone

stadium to Rondebosch commons for a three day ‘occupation’. The aim is a public space to discuss solutions to a range of issues: housing,rent…

I took the liberty to translate an interview with Michel Bauwens, by Anne-Sophie Novel (published first in French on Greensiders).  

"Peer-to-peer", often abbreviated P2P, allows for example to exchange music files or movies on the Internet. Napster, eDonkey, eMule, Kazaa or more recently Spotify ... P2P systems are prominent examples of P2P.…

Via over forty organisations, networks and social movements from at least seven European countries are committed to attending the forum. This will be a real opportunity to build European networks and campaigns that will take concrete forms in follow-up meetings in Spain, the UK, Romania, Bulgaria and France in the next months to continue the work begun in Rome. The emphasis on concrete campaigns will be the starting point to engage in a reflection on the revision of the EU Treaties, to…

Paradigms are shifting and new practical solutions are needed. This year we want to start an Open Source Ecology community in Germany and we are looking for a Dedicated Team to make this happen.

The people involved in the project will be sharing openly and for free economically significant information. We want to open source the ecology of the environmental, societal and technological systems so that we contribute directly to the creation of…

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For several months, during the unfolding events of the Occupy movement, supporters, media and world observers have been wondering, 'where is this movement heading?'



To help provide both a signpost and a compass for that question, The Future of Occupy collective, an international initiative supporting the movement’s self-reflection, is announcing the opening of its website. It is a virtual library of…

Via Silke Helfrich:

Im Juni 2012 wird im Kulturhof im Thüringischen Bechstedt die 1. deutschsprachige Sommerschule für Commons stattfinden, auf die ich mich jetzt schon freue. Das vorläufige Programm, das sich…

From: Stevphen Shukaitis a href="mailto:stevphen@autonomedia.org">stevphen@autonomedia.org>

Date: Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 7:52 PM

Subject: <nettime> 12/12 Essex Seminar: Models for a Peer-to-Peer Society

To: Nettime a href="mailto:nettime-l@kein.org">nettime-l@kein.org>

Models for a Peer-to-Peer Society

A seminar with Michel Bauwens, P2P Foundation

Monday December 12th at 2pm in the Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall Seminar Room

Centre for…

THE WINCHESTER CENTRE FOR GLOBAL FUTURES IN ART DESIGN & MEDIA



Invitation for all to attend the next talk in our new Global Futures

Speakers' Series, Friday, 9 December 2011, 12:00 ­ 13:00 in Lecture Theatre A at WSA:



Title: "P2P Economics  = Shared Innovation Commons + Mutualist Phyles?"

Speaker: Michel Bauwens (founder of the Foundation of Peer-to-Peer Alternatives)



Patterns that prefigure a horizontalized future: If the…

Dear Colleague



It is my pleasure to announce that the call for papers for the 1st

Global Thematic IASC Conference on the Knowledge Commons is now

launched: deadline 15th January. More information is…

Via http://lacantine.org/events/seminaires-w2s-from-collaborative-prosumer-capitalism-to-a-commons-based-p2p-economy-by-michel-bauwens

Le 16 Decembre 2011 de 14h00 à 17h00

The internet is creating a great…

Introduction to P2P and the Commons as the new paradigm of change

Occupy Our Commons – an invitation

4 November 2011

“In considering the essential problem of how to produce and distribute material wealth, virtually all of the great economists in Western history have ignored the significance of the commons — the shared resources of nature and society that people inherit, create and utilize.”

James Quilligan, commons thinker and activist, in:

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Ryan Fugger a href="mailto:arv@ryanfugger.com" target="_blank">arv@ryanfugger.com>





Hi everyone.  I recently launched Villages.cc as a Ripple system that has a marketplace and discoverable user profiles:



http://villages.cc



It's basically a social barter network with Ripple as the accounting system.  To simplify things, since Ripple is…

La Quadrature du Net - For immediate release



Permanent link: http://www.laquadrature.net/en/over-1-million-views-for-no-to-acta-video-now-take-action





Over 1 Million Views for "NO to ACTA!" Video! Now, take Action!







*** Paris, 04 November 2011 — “NO to ACTA!”, the video published by La Quadrature du Net last week, has been…

Via Kamran Mofid:

The world is riveting toward a possible turning point and we hope that you are able to stand with us in this call to action.…

More info via Anthony Finno

at: anthonyfinno@gmail.com

 …