WMST 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Digital Commons, State Ownership
10 Feb 2018
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The commons: not policed or controlled, no authority that controls ownership or useage, examples, air, oceans, cultural commons digital commons, have some sort of right to to access to, category of property of type of property. A resource which has a common right. Forms of property that function through custom rules or regulations: not in the form of exclusive private ownership, difficult to assign units of ownership to this resource (enclose, hard to limit or control access. Enclosure: extincton of common rights and replacement: can exclude other people, state and private was established through enclosure, commons have been enclosed, state: common re, ex. Common right for many user to use and hold in common this resource. Often difficult to exclude non-rights holders (i. e. migratory. Cost and benefits: people benefit but there are costs associated with cheating or overuse. Governance: rules, trditions, customs, govern when what where, who, ect uses it, often very complex, there.
