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David M Berry

David M. Berry is an associate tutor in the department of media and film at Sussex University. During the 1990s he co-founded the newspaper SchNEWS, worked at Reuters news agency in London and set up LOCA records, an electronica record label influenced by the Free Software and OpenSource movements. One of his current projects is the Libre Culture Manifesto which explores and researches issues around informational-capitalism, technology and social implications of a wider application of Free/Libre and OpenSource ideas.

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The global digital commons and other unlikely tales

The commons movement may be groundbreaking and innovative but as it hurtles towards a global model, it risks the privatisation of culture and a disregard for national boundaries, says David M Berry.