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Each side accuses the other of bad faith, and calls its opponents well-funded zealots who won’t listen to reason and want to destroy the culture.

An alternative process entails introducing additional rules and limits to reuse while adhering to the general vision of the commons. Such a more robust form of commons-based ordering has often not been considered a form of openness in the past 3 . It involves harnessing non-copyright-based tools, introducing other legal mechanisms, and considering... See more

Copyright rules, in -cluding open licensing frameworks, should be viewed as “the floor,” or a starting point for further governance; other modes of ordering and regulating behavior must also be considered. In particular, most of the issues framed as responsible or ethical AI fall beyond the scope of copyright law, and copyright-based tools are not... See more

Wikipedia marked its 22nd anniversary in January. It remains, in many ways, a throwback to the Internet’s utopian early days, when experiments with open collaboration — anyone can write and edit for Wikipedia — had yet to cede the digital terrain to multibillion-dollar corporations and data miners, advertising schemers and social-media... See more

• 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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I really kind of like the American project. The experiment of, “Hey, let’s go try out a bunch of different things and allow people to build things that they would like to have built.” Why don’t we enable and empower more people in that way? Fortunately the technologies can work that way, but we need people to think ethically. As Larry Lessig put... See more