The commons

The internet is a form of commons, it's gifted and has granted us a great chance of having further exploration of the existing issues, equally opening up the online debate, allowing everyone to have a voice. We can say COMMONS are resources held in common, not privately own or belong to any particular individuals but rather to be everyone's property, which are non-exclusive and accessible. SHARING is a better word to describe them. Why is that? In a sense, the commons cannot be commodified, in other words, their nature are to share ownership as widely. Furthermore, COMMONS are meant to be preserved regardless of any forms of return of capital, such aspect is to maintain them to our next generation at a minimum of not degrading them. 

The COMMONS we are talking about here are intangible, digital commons have provided by the internet are information and knowledge resources that can be created and re-created, used and re-used , freely available for everyone to do further editing, adjustment, reconstruction to generate a better interactive environment among the community. These sources embody the act of openness and constructiveness, establishing the more active role in our norms.

In other words, COMMONS are internationally known and also represented as a movement spreading around the globe, building up its self-recognition to every user, they have their features for every user to distinguish them from one another, such as Wikipedia, a broad website for us to learn the brief idea of the concepts, we wouldn't use Youtube to do so as we know Youtube is primarily for searching videos and vice versa. Each of them have clearly modified itself as a symbol, a brand for its own market. COMMONS manage their own business and get themselves more advanced by the participants, the users who help them to grow and transform them to newer mode of production.

With COMMONS bombardment, it leads to what we call the economy of COMMONS when it comes to the whole system renews itself by three new components: the distributed communities passionately are working together simultaneously to build up the online social connection on the collaborative multi-platform and internet based technolgies by the foundations. The knowledge, code and design are abundance and easily to be duplicated through the availability of internet download.  As for COMMONS, this happens from time to time since they are not marketable and therefore, users tend to neglect their act as the invasion of the intellectual right of each production.

The establishment of COMMONS copyright is just like online battle to protect the information originality, it's an attempt to advocate the respect of the producer, it's necessarily to apply this approach towards every COMMON. I mean, internet is a COMMON itself, also a mix of COMMONS differ from each other, we do have the duty to stop any disruption or abuse of information, not letting it to go chaotic.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/labguest/3287937707/Creative commons TM Logo Idea
Here is someone's design of trademark logo for creative commons property. Creative commons licensed media encourages open minds and open eyes and hence, the C.C becomes a wide-eyed observer of the contents have offered via the net

References

Walljasper, J(2010), The commons moments is now, Commondreams.org,<http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/24-0>

Meretz, S(2010), Ten theses about global commons movement, P2P Foundation<http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/ten-theses-about-global-commons-movement/2011/01/05>

Monbiot, G(2010), Reclaim the cyber-commons, Monbiot.com,<http://www.monbiot.com/2010/12/13/reclaim-the-cyber-commons/>

Good R and Bauwens M(2010), From Open business models to an economy of the commons, Robin good,<http://www.masternewmedia.org/from-open-business-models-to-an-economy-of-the-commons/>