Securing the Internet Commons

According to information available, the Bill did not move forward in the 1997 1998 session of the House of Commons.2

And the ideas, the creative commons licenses.

46. Global Commons Institute, London, United Kingdom

How many people have heard of creative commons?

This is an attack on the global commons.

Canada (House of Commons) v. Vaid, 2005 S.C.C.

Now, this explains the right wing nonprofit Creative Commons.

This is Mashpee Commons, the oldest retrofit that we've found.

It is, in theory, the global commons, belonging to us all.

2 United Kingdom, House of Commons Internet Publications, 26 November 1997.

So, we've built this idea of a commons. People are using it.

The other major narrative of social dilemmas is the tragedy of the commons.

Trafficking moves largely at sea but in other parts of the global commons.

Behind that is the legal code, so if you want to very carefully construct it, and creative commons is taking off over 43 million things out there, licensed with a creative commons license.

While acknowledging that issues surrounding compensation for losses to global commons were unique and complex and required separate treatment, some delegations would have preferred the application of the draft principles to the global commons.

Although the Undertaking applied only to plant genetic resources, an area in which the concept of a global genetic commons was especially strong, all genetic material had traditionally been viewed as part of a global commons.

Because we're saying that anybody can contribute things to this commons. Anybody can contribute anything.

The respondent, Satnam Vaid, was the driver of the Speaker of the House of Commons.

The broader issues of creeping pollution and global commons should be excluded, at least initially.

25 House of Commons, Hansard, Written Answers for 11 November 1997 (pt. 12, col. 499).

35 House of Commons, Hansard, Written Answers for 29 April 1998 (pt. 9, col. 153).

This assertion of sovereign rights over raw genetic material represented the death knell of the core concept of a global commons, namely, that sovereigns would not claim or appropriate something in that commons as exclusively their own.

So this terrorism concern is also part of the global commons, and what we must address.

Review of intelligence on weapons of mass destruction, United Kingdom House of Commons, 14 July 2004.

16 House of Commons, Hansard, Written Answers for 5 May 1998 (pt. 29, col. 371 372).

In Canada (House of Commons) v. Vaid, the Supreme Court considered whether the Canadian Human Rights Act was applicable, because of the Constitution, by reason of a parliamentary privilege of the House of Commons and its members on questions of employment.

UNIDO puts special emphasis on helping developing countries meet the environmental challenges that threaten the global commons.

So let me talk a little bit about why we need to do that, because our global commons is under attack in a variety of ways, and none of the sources of threat to the global commons will be solved by building walls.

I'm going to talk briefly about two of them the prisoner's dilemma and the tragedy of the commons.

So, you know, we have open source software, we have Creative Commons and other kinds of Copyleft solutions.

By 1992, the concept of a global commons or open system for genetic resources began to be forgotten.

Furthermore, to stretch the normal meaning of this provision to cover the global commons seemed out of place.

In addition, the Commission had considered whether the examination of the topic should extend to issues concerning global commons.

So it brings me to my main take home message, which is we can avert a tragedy of the commons.

Elinor Ostrom, the latest Nobel laureate of economics, clearly shows empirically across the world that we can govern the commons if we invest in trust, local, action based partnerships and cross scale institutional innovations, where local actors, together, can deal with the global commons at a large scale.

But she also found many instances in which people escaped the prisoner's dilemma in fact, the tragedy of the commons is a multiplayer prisoner's dilemma.

This kind of trafficking, in narcotics, in humans, in weapons, God forbid, in weapons of mass destruction, is part of the threat to the global commons.

The traditional view that genetic resources formed part of the global commons was eroded by the extension of patents to living organisms and later to genetic material.

16. Following events in Northern Ireland during July, the Secretary of State announced to the House of Commons that he would be setting up a review of parades.

She looked at thousands of cases of humans sharing watersheds, forestry resources, fisheries, and discovered that yes, in case after case, humans destroyed the commons that they depended on.

27. The administering Power reported in November 1997 to the House of Commons that there were five patients in the acute ward in the Margetson Memorial Home in Montserrat.

52. The International Development Select Committee of the House of Commons conducted an inquiry in October 1997 into the handling of the volcano crisis by the administering Power s Government.

58. On 16 February 1998, the British Government published its own report in response to the House of Commons Committee s first report on handling the volcano crisis in Montserrat.

Now, Elinor Ostrom, a political scientist, in 1990 asked the interesting question that any good scientist should ask, which is is it really true that humans will always despoil commons?