Rethinking free and open source and its role in the movement against capitalism - “Copyfarleft and Copyjustright”
https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/copyfarleft-and-copyjustright
This is an interesting paper and something like this should be explored. Although, I would shift the anti-capitalist analysis to the labor theory of property and shift some of the critique of property to employment contracts.
Non-profits with workers must also have labor control.
The article’s version doesn’t account for some use cases.
Non-market systems can operate within the commons and we only need to charge at points where value leaves.
Extensions I’ve considered:
- Allow proprietary works as long as the commons is appropriately compensated
- Restrict use for creating proprietary works.
- Require collectivizing property also
Distribute licensing funds to projects using quadratic funding
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