⚖ The Commons
Who owns knowledge, how that question got answered at each technological inflection, and what happens when the answers stop working.
Papers
| Paper | One sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| Bush 1945 | The memex: a machine for following trails through all recorded knowledge | ⚖ |
| Statute of Anne 1710 | The original bargain: fourteen years of monopoly for public benefit | ⚖ |
| Berners-Lee 1989 + CERN 1993 | A memo about document management accidentally created a commons | ⚖ |
| Brin & Page 1998 | PageRank — and Appendix A, which predicted the enclosure | ⚖ |
| Boyle 2003 | The second enclosure movement: the pattern named | ⚖ |
| Lessig 2004 | How fourteen years became forever | ⚖ |
| Authors Guild v. Google 2015 | Indexing twenty million books is fair use | ⚖ |
| Mikolov 2013 | Meaning becomes geometry: retrieval without reproduction | ⚖ |
📺 Video lectures: Lessig: Laws that Choke Creativity (TED) · Ostrom: Nobel Lecture on Governing the Commons
These authors described the problem. 
The manifesto describes a solution.