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The Information Age's emphasis on speed over expertise contributes to "superficial culture in which even the elite will openly disparage as pointless our main repositories for the very best that has been thought

establishing transparency as a principle that increases the social value of these systems and democratizes these technologies.

Another proposed solution would entail technical means of tracking uses of openly shared works, which could benefit from advances in web technologies. These tools would make downstream (re)uses of content traceable and, therefore, legible to licensors, creating opportunities to interact with users and potentially enforce additional norms

Thanks to their digital nature, e-books are treated much differently. They can’t be resold or given away. A library that wants to lend e-books must buy a license from the copyright holder. These subscriptions can be limited to a number of reads, or by periods of a year or two. Everything is tracked. Libraries own nothing.

• Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows: This is a classic book on systems theory that provides a great introduction to the concept.


• The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision by Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi: This book offers a unified view of life, integrating life's biological, cognitive, social, and ecological dimensions.


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Stewards of the information commons – and in particular organizations manag -ing open licensing frameworks and content-sharing platforms – are among those stakeholders who should face the challenge of mitigating risks and harms associ -ated with and caused by the open sharing of content as an information commons. These stakeholders need to collabor... See more