Libre Commons Res Communes Licence
Proposed by David M. Berry and Giles Moss
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Introduction
David M. Berry and Giles Moss:
"The commons is that which is shared in common with others and the Libre Commons Res Communes Licence seeks to underline that definition. A commons can be a resource, such as land or water, that members of a “community” own and share. The commons has traditionally been limited to a local community right and to a physical resource such as a forest. But it has also been used to refer to the space of intellectual thought —an ‘ideas commons’, an ‘innovation commons’, an ‘intellectual commons’, a ‘digital commons’, ‘immaterial commons’ and inevitably an ‘e–commons’, ‘the public domain’ or ‘Intellectual Space’. The Libre Commons Res Communes Licence commits work that is inscribed with it to a shared common that all can draw from and reuse.
We are, to be clear, using the concept of the commons in an inclusive and positive sense. The commons is shared in common between us (i.e., positive in being ‘owned’ by us all) and inclusive in that we are all included in being able to use the commons (i.e., inclusive in as much as it includes the human race as a whole). This differs from negative conceptions of ‘community’ relating to the commons, where the commons is an unowned space, ripe for appropriation and privatization by anyone (i.e., the justification used by corporations for the appropriation of common land)." (http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/1403/1321)
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"Res Communes Licence
The Res Communes license is designed to reject a state–centred legal construct of a commons (or commons without commonalty) in order to concentrate on creating a common which is shared between us in collective practices (a commons with commonalty). The ‘Commune’ or the ‘Commonalty’ originally meant ‘the people of the whole realm’ or ‘all the King’s subjects’ as opposed to the King, the Nobles or the ‘Commons’ in Parliament.
We here refer to the commonalty to refer to the global multitude, the people of the whole world.
1. This work is outside of all legal jurisdictions and takes its force and action from the constituent radical democratic practices of the global multitude against the logic of capital.
2. All work that is so inscribed should bear the text ‘(L) <year> Libre Commons Res Communes License’.
3. As a user of this license the work is available to be shared and used as part of a common creative substrate that is shared between us." (http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/1403/1321)