CMNS 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Mass Collaboration, Creative Industries, Digital Commons
28 Mar 2016
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Last week we considered the importance of intellectual property to post-fordist capitalism. We described it as a form of monopoly rent. We highlighted the contested nature of this communicaion resource: always a contested process, challenged by rise of new pracices (ile sharing, piraing), also mass collaboraion (wiki) These mass collaboraion run counter to neo-classical theory. Bankler lib demo posiion on non market producion (name for these. Companies using collecively produced content, taking the commons, and tries to make proit/privaize it. Gets in the way of creaivity, if scared of geing sued, don"t circulate content. Screening: press pause play (2011: complex relaionship between open networked producion vs capitalist accumulaion, producion for proit. Legal scholars: commons are good over capitalists acc, but sill believe both should exist side by side. Prof: digital commons beter source of innovaion than capitalist market, preparing ground for new forms of proit producion.
