the role of commons in relational economies

THE ROLE OF COMMONS IN RELATIONAL ECONOMIESCC Salon: Future of Money, Stockholm 5 May 2010

FROM RELATIONAL TO TRANSACTIONAL ECONOMIES

money is autonomous

MANIFESTATION of exchange relation

INTRINSIC VALUE OF MONEYFrom dewarra to plåtmynt

SOCIAL (ex)CHANGEFines, weregild’s, dowries, blackmail, bribery & labour…

COPYRIGHT IS TECHNOLOGYtechnology evolves

Law as FIXATION of social agreements

MODERN copyright law

is FIXED in the 1950s

Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can

probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against

the natural order of things.

Digitalization – Connectivity – Devices

RETURN OF RELATIONAL ECONOMY

EMPIRICAL PROOF CASH NOT A REQUIREMENT FOR CREATION… But geeks are different?

PROVED STALLMAN’S IDEAS SCALED & APPLIED TO NON-SPECIALIST GROUPS

And still we cling to the economic & creative myth

RIP, MIX, BURN?

Swedish National Heritage Board

TWO YEARS LATER

& 34 TAGS

SUPPORTING THE RELATIONSHIP

Creative Commons as BAND-AID?

THANK YOU.

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