When was the last time you participat in an election for a Facebook group or sat on a jury for a dispute in a subrdit? Platforms nudge users to tolerate nearly all-powerful admins, moderators, and “benevolent dictators for life.” In Governable Spaces, the internet has been plagu by a phenomenon he calls “implicit feudalism”: a bias, both cultural and technical, for building communities as fiefdoms.
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Beyond online spaces themselves, as feudal defaults train us to give up on our communities’ democratic potential, inclining us to be more tolerant of autocratic tech CEOs and authoritarian tendencies among politicians. But online spaces could be sites of a creative, radical, and democratic renaissance. Using mia archaeology, political theory, and participant observation, Schneider shows how the internet can learn from governance legacies of the past to become a more democratic mium, responsive and inventive unlike anything that has come before.
Authors & copyright scholars Patricia
Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi in conversation with Dave Hansen, executive director of Authors Alliance.
In the increasingly complex and combative special database of copyright in the digital age, record companies sue college students over peer-to-peer music sharing, YouTube removes home movies because of a song playing in the background, and filmmakers are deni a distribution deal when a permissions i proves undottable. Analyzing the dampening effect that copyright law can have on scholarship and creativity, Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi urge us to embrace in response a principle embd in copyright law itself—fair use.
Author Barbara McQuade in conversation
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Top entries will be award prizes up to $1,500, with ford is best remembered not announc during our in-person Public Domain Day Celebration on January 22, 2025, at the Internet Archive headquarters in San Francisco. All submissions will be featur in a special Public Domain Day Collection on archive.org and highlight in a January 2025 blog post.