With the increasing centrality of ‹social labour› to capital economies, the popular notion of the Commons is drawn radically into question. What can be the status of ‹free› resources in an economy which has brought the exploitation of unpaid cooperation and affect to its very core? Can ‹free› really mean free ‹as-in-libre›? Can a Commons also be contestational? And if so, how do we go about producing it?

Jamie King (Mute, London), Alan Toner (Autonomedia, Rome) and Benjamin Mako Hill (Debian Not For Profit, Seattle) will discuss with the participants the further development of a Wiki (a website that is editable by all users) dedicated to the future set-up of a public knowledge database about intellectual property.
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