Martin Hardie on Mon, 15 Sep 2003 13:45:02 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime> The Governance of Code: Open Land vs. UCITA Land |
This abstract was posted on the oekonux english list. There appears below a link to the paper itself and as Stefan Merten said on OX - it looks interesting. Martin (still evading US export restrictions in Africa) - - -------------- Authors: Syme, Serena & L. Jean Camp Title: The Governance of Code: Open Land vs. UCITA Land http://www.computersandsociety.org/sigcas/subpage/sub_page.cfm?article=543&page_number_nb=1 Abstract: Imagine two network societies. In one society, the transfer of information and use of software is governed by the various licenses used to protect open code today. For convenience, we dub this society "Open Land". The other society recently passed a law identical to the new Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act ("UCITA", passed in two U.S. states and pending in several others) to control its information and computer software. We will call this society "UCITA Land". This paper looks at the ways in which Open Land and UCITA Land differ. Although it might initially seem that a licensing framework is trivial in terms of the actual conduct of society, we posit that such frameworks in many ways define the mode of governance of network society. The establishment of a market involves the development of a bundle of rights that both create property and define the rules under which property-based transactions might occur. In Open Land and UCITA Land, fundamentally different approaches to the establishment of those rights lead to vastly different societies. ________________________________ Web-Site: http://www.oekonux.de/ Organisation: [email protected] _______________________ http://www.oekonux.org/ --------------040000090501060007070308 Content-Type: message/rfc822; name="[ox-en] Fwd: [ox] Text: The Governance of Code: Open Land vs. UCITA Land" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="[ox-en] Fwd: [ox] Text: The Governance of Code: Open Land vs. UCITA Land" Return-Path: <[email protected]> Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: (qmail 11633 invoked by uid 92); 14 Sep 2003 22:24:25 -0000 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (212.227.126.183) by 10.100.100.232 with SMTP; 14 Sep 2003 22:24:24 -0000 Received: from [212.227.126.160] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 19yfFe-0003gT-00; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 00:21:50 +0200 Received: from [217.237.74.142] (helo=karlma.merten-home.de) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (TLSv1:EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.35 #1) id 19yfFd-0005dj-00; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 00:21:50 +0200 Received: (from mdom@localhost) by karlma.merten-home.de (8.11.6/8.11.6/SuSE Linux 0.5) id h8ELsEE18764 for list-en-outgoing.oekonux.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 23:54:19 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by karlma.merten-home.de (8.11.6/8.11.6/SuSE Linux 0.5) with ESMTP id h8ELjb218645 for <list-en.oekonux.org@localhost>; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 23:45:46 +0200 Received: from pop.kundenserver.de by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.9.0) for list-en.oekonux.org@localhost (single-drop); Sun, 14 Sep 2003 23:45:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [212.227.126.205] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by mxng09.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 19yedv-0007nW-00; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 23:42:51 +0200 Received: from [217.237.74.142] (helo=rosalu.merten-home.de) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (TLSv1:EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.35 #1) id 19yedv-0003Rf-01; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 23:42:51 +0200 Received: from rosalu.merten-home.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rosalu.merten-home.de (8.11.6/8.11.6/SuSE Linux 0.5) with ESMTP id h8EKriY01444; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 22:53:44 +0200 Message-Id: <[email protected]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 To: [email protected] cc: Stefan Merten <[email protected]> Subject: [ox-en] Fwd: [ox] Text: The Governance of Code: Open Land vs. UCITA Land In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 20 Aug 2003 09:11:03 +0200" <8081750.1061370663@[10.0.0.3]> Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 22:53:44 +0200 From: Stefan Merten <[email protected]> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by rosalu.merten-home.de id h8EKriY01444 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by karlma.merten-home.de id h8ELjq218655 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: [email protected] Precedence: bulk Reply-To: [email protected] List-Id: New society based on the principles of GNU/Linux? <list-en.oekonux.org> List-Help: <http://www.oekonux.org/list-en/> (Homepage) List-Help: <mailto:[email protected]> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]?body=unsubscribe> List-Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]?body=subscribe> List-Post: <mailto:[email protected]> List-Owner: <mailto:[email protected]> List-Archive: <http://www.oekonux.org/list-en/archive/> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by karlma.merten-home.de id h8ELsEF18764 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hi! The following sounds interesting to me, too. Mit Freien Gr=FC=DFen Stefan - ------- Forwarded Message Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 09:11:03 +0200 From: Thomas Berker <[email protected]> Subject: [ox] Text: The Governance of Code: Open Land vs. UCITA Land To: [email protected] Cc: =20 Message-Id: <8081750.1061370663@[10.0.0.3]> Habs noch nicht gelesen, sieht recht politikwissenschaftlich aus, aber=20 vielleicht ist das ja (trotzdem) interessant, Gruesse, t - - -------------- Authors: Syme, Serena & L. Jean Camp Title: The Governance of Code: Open Land vs. UCITA Land http://www.computersandsociety.org/sigcas/subpage/sub_page.cfm?article=3D= 543&page_number_nb=3D1 Abstract: Imagine two network societies. In one society, the transfer of informatio= n=20 and use of software is governed by the various licenses used to protect=20 open code today. For convenience, we dub this society "Open Land". The=20 other society recently passed a law identical to the new Uniform Computer= =20 Information Transactions Act ("UCITA", passed in two U.S. states and=20 pending in several others) to control its information and computer=20 software. We will call this society "UCITA Land". This paper looks at the= =20 ways in which Open Land and UCITA Land differ. Although it might initiall= y=20 seem that a licensing framework is trivial in terms of the actual conduct= =20 of society, we posit that such frameworks in many ways define the mode of= =20 governance of network society. The establishment of a market involves the= =20 development of a bundle of rights that both create property and define th= e=20 rules under which property-based transactions might occur. In Open Land a= nd=20 UCITA Land, fundamentally different approaches to the establishment of=20 those rights lead to vastly different societies. ________________________________ Web-Site: http://www.oekonux.de/ Organisation: [email protected] - ------- End of Forwarded Message -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3in Charset: noconv Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.7, an Emacs/PGP interface iQCVAwUBP2TVWAnTZgC3zSk5AQFZGAP+PTsYsfCFKK0X/GiCxWY/yGKW+gGkH8NJ UpC0ztv5as0+Dzgu3BWrHhq1lDRMEOfTBAS67+Hjl1LbtJDim7rcol7sxyiqjevU rSnLn0XYMHvWPl92j3d7WwdMifF3rMQ/jiwuRh8wztiHFAzq44mLJMb9Iyvmk/LQ pyLqo3YgqdA=3D =3DiMFd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________ http://www.oekonux.org/ --------------040000090501060007070308-- # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]