A presentation of the first draft of my thoughts for the WikiWars reader

1. The Globalisation of
“Open”
Is Creative Commons the right strategy for governing
the ownership and distribution of Wikipedia?

7. cc is a political artifact

8. What things regulate
Lessig ‘Code’

10. +
litigious
rule of law well est.
strong enforcement
local demand
accessible legal system
-
weak enforcement
weak compliance
inaccessible legal system
ltd law-making expertise
foreign demand

11. +
+ litigious
skilled architects rule of law well est.
breaking the code doesn’t strong enforcement
result in a loss local demand
local support accessible legal system
- -
lack of skilled architects weak enforcement
it is easy and cheap to weak compliance
break the code and this inaccessible legal system
results in a loss ltd law-making expertise
foreign demand

12. +
competition
high demand
+
+ litigious
skilled architects rule of law well est.
breaking the code doesn’t strong enforcement
result in a loss local demand
local support accessible legal system
- -
lack of skilled architects weak enforcement
it is easy and cheap to weak compliance
break the code and this inaccessible legal system
results in a loss ltd law-making expertise
foreign demand

13. + -
competition lack of competition
high demand low demand
+
+ litigious
skilled architects rule of law well est.
breaking the code doesn’t strong enforcement
result in a loss local demand
local support accessible legal system
- -
lack of skilled architects weak enforcement
it is easy and cheap to weak compliance
break the code and this inaccessible legal system
results in a loss ltd law-making expertise
foreign demand

14. + -
competition lack of competition
high demand low demand
+
+ litigious
skilled architects rule of law well est.
breaking the code doesn’t strong enforcement
result in a loss local demand
local support accessible legal system
- -
lack of skilled architects weak enforcement
it is easy and cheap to weak compliance
break the code and this inaccessible legal system
results in a loss ltd law-making expertise
foreign demand
+
large, well-developed,
diverse, informed community

15. + -
competition lack of competition
high demand low demand
+
+ litigious
skilled architects rule of law well est.
breaking the code doesn’t strong enforcement
result in a loss local demand
local support accessible legal system
- -
lack of skilled architects weak enforcement
it is easy and cheap to weak compliance
break the code and this inaccessible legal system
results in a loss ltd law-making expertise
foreign demand
+ -
large, well-developed, small, uninformed,
diverse, informed community homogenous community

16. Ecosystems that facilitate sharing
‘free’
Flickr’s ‘Share this’ public domain
Bloggers, Twitter, science

17. Sharing among some, restriction of others
‘free’
Flickr’s ‘Share this’ CC
Bloggers, Twitter, science

18. Governance
• representation;
• resource distribution;
• < formalisation;
• i.e. having less and less room to do radical
reformation when it is most necessary to do
so.

19. What are we choosing when
we choose CC?
• reinforce copyright law
• reinforce commodification of culture
• reinforce lawyers’ power
• reinforce global disparities
• adopt a system that has developed as far as
it will?

20. choice