On July 14th, 2009, Giorgos Cheliotis, assistant professor of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore and a visitor researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, has tried to answer the question how large and free are the Commons? during a talk called Mapping the Global Commons: A quantitative perspective on free cultural practice.
With his colleagues, he’s building ccMonitor, a live-data wiki platform to track the global development of open licensing. At the moment they are analyzing only works released under Creative Commons licenses, free/open source software is excluded for now. At Participatory Media Lab, another project for the analysis of free culture, they are studying the effects of some rights reserved licenses on musical works, through the ccMixter online community. They have published a working paper and several data plot visualizations.

Bibliography

• [berkman] Mapping the global commons, Joho the blog, July 14th, 2009.

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