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Working Paper The Ginseng Commons of West Virginia(2010) Bollier, David"Folklife and landscape in southern West Virginia."Conference Paper Artists, Technology and the Ownership of Creative Content: Summary Report(2001) Bollier, DavidFrom Introduction: "As the title of the conference suggests, discussions about 'artists, technology and the ownership of creative content' range across a large territory of law, politics, technology, art, history and the mysterious dynamics of creativity itself. Yet for all the complexities of this topic, one fact is inescapable: the digital revolution is provoking a wide array of novel quandaries. Answers are elusive, it seems, because the technologies are disrupting many existing economic and political relationships, as embodied in law and markets – yet forging new alignments of interests and new social consensuses is notoriously difficult work."Working Paper New Era for Commons-based Development in Africa?(2009) Bollier, David"Ostroms Nobel validates cooperative strategies for land management."Journal Article The Cornucopia of the Commons(2001) Bollier, David"A few years ago, the newspapers of New York City were ablaze with a controversy about dozens of plots of derelict land that had been slowly turned into urban oases. Should these beautiful community gardens that neighborhoods had created on trash-filled lots be allowed to stay in the public domain? Or should the mayor and city government, heeding the call of developers, try to generate new tax revenues on the reclaimed sites by selling them to private investors?"Working Paper The Public Domain Manifesto(2010) Bollier, David"The public domain — long a stepchild in the fierce politics of copyright law — is finally starting to come into its own. A diverse array of individuals and organizations associated with COMMUNIA, the European 'thematic network' on the digital public domain, have issued a major manifesto explaining the importance of the public domain to democratic culture. The manifesto has already garnered endorsements from thousands of people and dozens of organizations. It has also been translated into seventeen different languages, including French, Czech, Chinese Mandarin, Portuguese, Italian, Hebrew, Serbo-Croation and Turkish. This powerful show of support is helping to mobilize the many constituencies that depend upon the public domain. It also puts the corporate armies of copyright maximalists on notice that their attempts to enclose the public domain will be actively resisted."Working Paper The Power of Open Data(2010) Bollier, David"How large-scale sharing and collaboration are helping to solve medical mysteries."Journal Article New Politics of the Commons(2007) Bollier, David"One of the most stubborn problems in confronting the pathologies of the neoliberal political order is the limitations of our language. We do not have an adequate public vocabulary to describe the plunder of globalized markets. We have trouble highlighting the social inequities that are built into conventional economics and political discourse. We do not have a grand narrative with compelling sub-plots to set forth an alternative vision, one that can both stir the blood and show intellectual sophistication."Journal Article The Commons and Emergent Democracy(2007) Bollier, David"New genres of online collaboration are producing robust new types of 'democratic practice' online, claims David Bollier. Whether and how they will affect conventional politics and governance may be another issue, since it is not yet clear that the new social technologies will significantly intervene in the conduct of power and make it more accessible and accountable."Working Paper NAFTA, Mexican Corn and the Commons(2010) Bollier, David"How American industrial agriculture threatens Mexican biodiversity and social stability."Conference Paper Is the Commons a Movement?(2004) Bollier, David"The free software and open source movements are perhaps the most active, mature and self-aware advocates of the commons. But in truth, there is a teeming constellation of constituencies who are embracing the idea of the commons to advance their agendas: environmentalists, libraries, scholars, media reforms and many others. I believe we are on the cusp of a commons movement: a messy, uncoordinated, bottom-up assertion of a new political philosophy cultural outlook and vehicle for creative wealth, both economic and social."