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Issue #6 Disruption and the Law
by Steve Collins 23 Jan '15

23 Jan '15

Hi Everyone I'd like to announce the release of issue #6 of the Journal of Peer Production. Disruption and the Law was edited by Angela Daly (Swinburne University of Technology and European University Institute) and myself (Macquarie University). Please distribute across your networks. http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-6-disruption-and-the-law/ The disruption caused by new technologies and non-conventional methods of organisation – from a Western perspective at least – have posed challenges for the law, confronting regulators with the need to balance justice and an appreciation of new realities with powerful interests and existing paradigms. Experience from the “disruptions” of the late twentieth century has shown that the response from incumbent industries can lead to a period of intense litigation and lobbying for laws that will maintain the status quo. For example, following its “Napster moment”, the music industry fought to maintain its grip on distribution channels through increased copyright enforcement and the longer copyright terms it managed to extract from the legislative process. The newspaper industry has similarly seen its historical revenue stream of classified ads disrupted by more efficient online listings, and responded to its own failure to capitalise on online advertising by launching legal campaigns against Google News in various European countries. Though the law as it stands may not be well-equipped to deal with disruptive episodes, the technological innovations of the last twenty years have created an environment that generates disruption. The Internet, the Web and networked personal computers have converged into the ubiquitous post-PC media device, leaving twentieth century paradigms of production, consumption and distribution, particularly in the Western world, under considerable threat. The latest technology to be added to this group of disruptive innovations may be 3D printing, which in recent times has become increasingly available and accessible to users in developed economies, whilst the manufacturing capacity of 3D printers has dramatically grown. Although current offerings on the market are far from a Star Trek-like “replicator”, the spectre of disruption has once again arrived with the prospect of 3D printed guns inspiring a moral panic and raising questions of gun control, regulation, jurisdiction and effective control. In addition, 3D printing raises a number of issues regarding intellectual property, going far beyond the copyright problems that file-sharing brought about due to its production of physical objects. It is against this backdrop that we present this special issue of the Journal of Peer Production, comprising six peer-reviewed papers and one discussion paper covering an array of diverse issues implicated by the emergence of new production and distribution technologies, associated peer practices and tensions with legal and de facto regulatory frameworks. best steve -- *Dr Steve Collins* Senior Lecturer in Multimedia Program Director / BA-Media / Bachelor Marketing and Media Department of Media, Music, Communication & Cultural Studies Macquarie University P: (02) 9850 2165 W: http://bit.ly/122QivW L: Y3A 191D

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CFP RGS-IBG Annual Conference, Exeter, September 2015 / Session: Critical geographies of the sharing economy
by maxigas 21 Jan '15

21 Jan '15

CFP RGS-IBG Annual Conference, Exeter, September 2015 Session: Critical geographies of the sharing economy Sponsored by the Economic Geography Research Group Session convenors: Filippo Celata, University of Rome La Sapienza (Italy), filippo.celata(a)uniroma1.it and Ramon Ribera-Fumaz, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain), rriberaf(a)uoc.edu Abstract: The sharing economy is emerging as a powerful force for restructuring post-recession economies, for mitigating climate change through the sustainable (re-)use of resources, and for experimenting with non-capitalistic practices in which ownership and markets are replaced by access, collaborative consumption and commoning. The sharing economy is also becoming a new venue for venture capital investments, and has been accused of disrupting old industries by devolving further any legal, fiscal and social responsibilities to low-paid and unregulated “micro-entrepreneurs” who are induced to monetize personal assets and to compete against each other through self-branding. The aim of the session is to address this controversy from a geographical perspective, which is still missing. Sharing is indeed embedded in interpersonal relationships and based upon a variety of relational proximities which are needed to create links, trust, and reciprocity among people who share. These networks have a peculiar spatiality, may be more or the less inclusive, diverse, autonomous, ‘alternative’, and require the social infrastructure which is typical of cohesive communities and of densely urbanized areas. The problem is that community-based initiatives in the field often strive to survive and to up-scale. Internet-based intermediaries are indeed necessary to provide what self-organized networks rarely guarantee: efficient platforms, reputation systems and the critical mass of connections which are needed to reduce transaction costs and risks. These ICT platforms are increasingly controlled by big corporations which mobilize an array of benign geographical imaginaries - communitarism, autonomy, intimacy, reciprocity, authenticity, sustainability, etc. - for legitimising a business model that may be regarded as the last frontier of post-fordism, and as the advent of a libertarian and purely informational capitalism in which control over social networks became a major source of oligopolistic power. We invite papers which deal with the bright as well as dark side of this emerging phenomenon, and in particular: # The sharing economy and the spatiality of collaborative networks # The sharing economy and the geographies of community # The sharing economy and the diverse economies # The sharing economy and the reconfiguration of work and labour relations # The sharing economy and the extending geographies of outsourcing # The sharing economy and creative destruction # The sharing economy and (de)monetization # The sharing economy and the marketing of the self # The sharing economy and material/immaterial internet geographies # The sharing economy and libertarian/informational capitalism If you are interested in presenting a paper in this session, please send an abstract of max. 250 words to Filippo Celata, filippo.celata(a)uniroma1.it and Ramon Ribera-Fumaz, rriberaf(a)uoc.edu The deadline is 10 February 2015. -- maxigas, kiberpunk FA00 8129 13E9 2617 C614 0901 7879 63BC 287E D166 http://research.metatron.ai/ Life is more than artificial intelligence.

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Broken page
by george dafermos 07 Jan '15

07 Jan '15

I am feeling there's something wrong with this page: http://peerproduction.net/peer-review/current/ Shouldn't that page be dedicated to the most recent issue of JoPP? x, g.

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Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy
by Vasilis Kostakis 06 Jan '15

06 Jan '15

Hi everyone, I would like to announce the publication of a 100-pages long book authored by Michel Bauwens and myself, which came out with Palgrave Macmillan books. It is titled "Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy". http://tinyurl.com/ptvhg9b and the wiki site http://tinyurl.com/ldl3e7r Should you want to read the ebook, you may contact me with a private email. Best wishes to all for a (more) Commons-based 2015, Vasilis -- Dr. Vasilis Kostakis Senior Research Fellow Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance Research Director P2P Lab: http://p2plab.org

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