Abstract
The commons movement has become phenomenal in recent years. Nevertheless, with the multiplication of participants and the different politics they have brought in, it is unclear whether there exists a clear picture of what the goal of this movement actually is. Although based on the current copyright regime, public licenses have been instrumental for the commons movement, but what do we want these licenses help us to achieve?
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Speaker
Shun-ling Chen
SJD Candidate
Harvard Law School
Shun-ling Chen is a SJD candidate at Harvard Law School. She is interested in online collaborative experiments such as free software projects. She seeks to on one hand develop a critique of copyright, and on the other explore internal governance issues within such projects. She has also been working extensively on indigenous rights, especially on the issues of self-governance and natural-resources management. She sees both kinds of community efforts - digital and tribal - as attempts to provide alternative thinking of social relationship and different models of resource-distribution.
