Difference between revisions of "Gnomunism"

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<p>...there are ever-greater restrictions on access through intellectual property legislation, overpatenting, licensing, overpricing, withdrawal...</p>
 
<p>...there are ever-greater restrictions on access through intellectual property legislation, overpatenting, licensing, overpricing, withdrawal...</p>
  
<p>Serious thinkers are equally concerned with the imposition of private control over knowledge that many argue should be in the public domain.</p>
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<p>...serious thinkers are equally concerned with the imposition of private control over knowledge that many argue should be in the public domain.</p>
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<p>...greater access to cultural and scientific materials by individuals and groups outside the academy might have a remarkable impact on scholarship, culture, and possibly even science. He urges that the knowledge commons not be restricted to the scholarly community.</p>
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<p>...a knowledge commons can be used effectively to stimulate students and citizens more generally to engage in research of public value, using as well as contributing to the knowledge commons.</p>
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<p>A libertarian commons is one that anyone can access if they choose.</p>
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<p>...associational commons will be an important part of the democratic use of knowledge commons in the future. .../... By producing knowledge for the commons, students learn about public issues in a way they would not do otherwise. Levine then urges other scholars to develop associational commons of this type as a way of producing important contemporary knowledge, and as a way of training students about their own communities as well as how to produce and evaluate knowledge about communities.</p>
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<p>...the collaborative principles around Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FOSS) development projects could potentially be applied to develop new knowledge commons in science.</p>
 
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