Venture Communism
Venture Communism is a project to research, experiment with, and initiate social enterprises, particularly a rent-sharing based proposed form called a Venture Commune. The project also encourages dialogue and investigation of alternative economies and workers struggle against private property .
The goal is to promote understanding of the relationship between distribution of productive assets, political power and global exploitation and poverty and to investigate how worker-controlled enterprises can contribute to solving this problem, as well as to put such ideas into practice.
Several articles have been written and many on-line correspondences sent describing and discussing venture communism, as well as analyzing the nature of property generally.
Articles About Property Relations
Copyfarleft, Copyjustright and the Iron Law of Copyright Earnings by Dmytri Kleiner for Mute Magazine
Nem Copyleft, nem Copyright, nem Creative Commons: Copyfarleft Portuguese Translation by Miguel Caetano
Copyfarleft und Copyjustright German Translation by Stefan Meretz
Challenges to traditional copyright resulting from peer-to-peer applications, free software, filesharing and appropriation art have caused a wide ranging debate on the future of copyright. Dmytri Kleiner brings existing critiques of material property from the left to bear upon the realm of copyleft artistic production and asks how, within the existing copyright regime, can artists earn a living?
InfoEnclosure-2.0 by Dmytri Kleiner & Brian Wyrick for Mute Magazine
Grodzenie wirtualnej przestrzeni Polish Translation from Wolne Media
Infoenclausura 2.0: Portuguese Translation by Ariane Stolfi
The hype surrounding Web 2.0’s ability to democratise content production obscures its centralisation of ownership and the means of sharing. Dmytri Kleiner & Brian Wyrick expose Web 2.0 as a venture capitalist’s paradise where investors pocket the value produced by unpaid users, ride on the technical innovations of the free software movement and kill off the decentralising potential of peer-to-peer production
Copyright, Copyleft and the Creative Anti-Commons by Anna Nimus
Copyright, Copyleft e as Creative Anti-Commons Portuguese Translation by Miguel Caetano
This text investigating the history, philosophy and political economy of intellectual property developed out of a series of conversations and correspondences between Joanne Richardson and Dmytri Kleiner.
Venture Communist Bookmarks, Discussions and Articles on other sites
Articles About Venture Communism
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Press About Venture Communism
Online Discussions related to Venture Communism
P2P Foundation
ecopolis: life in transformation
Foundation For Peer To Peer Alternatives Newsletter Issue 149
Mutualists
Conceptual Gorilla
http://www.novogate.com/exco/thread.php?forumid=5374&threadid=89323
http://www.novogate.com/exco/thread.php?forumid=5374&threadid=63764
