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Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice

Charlotte Hess; Elinor Ostrom · MIT Press · 2007

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Book
Author
Charlotte Hess; Elinor Ostrom
Identifier
DOI 10.7551/mitpress/6980.001.0001
Accessed
2026-09-01
Reliability notes
Edited volume. Released by MIT Press in late 2006 with a 2007 copyright date.

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TheoryHess and Ostrom's edited volume treats knowledge as a shared resource, offering an analytical framework for the knowledge commons as a social-ecological system and discussing how to guard it against enclosure through intellectual property restrictions, licensing and loss of access.