The Open Field System and Beyond: A Property Rights Analysis of an Economic Institution

1982 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 295-297
Author(s):  
W. R. Waters

1981 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 382
Author(s):  
Eric Kerridge ◽  
Carl J. Dahlman




1981 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 481
Author(s):  
Vernon W. Ruttan ◽  
Carl J. Dahlman


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Grimmelmann

78 Fordham Law Review 2799 (2010)The Internet is a semicommons. Private property in servers and network links coexists with a shared communications platform. This distinctive combination both explains the Internet's enormous success and illustrates some of its recurring problems.Building on Henry Smith's theory of the semicommons in the medieval open-field system, this essay explains how the dynamic interplay between private and common uses on the Internet enables it to facilitate worldwide sharing and collaboration without collapsing under the strain of misuse. It shows that key technical features of the Internet, such as its layering of protocols and the Web's division into distinct "sites," respond to the characteristic threats of strategic behavior in a semicommons. An extended case study of the Usenet distributed messaging system shows that not all semicommons on the Internet succeed; the continued success of the Internet depends on our ability to create strong online communities that can manage and defend the infrastructure on which they rely. Private and common both have essential roles to play in that task, a lesson recognized in David Post's and Jonathan Zittrain's recent books on the Internet.



1891 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
F. Seebohm
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Sunnyside ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 146-149
Author(s):  
Laura Wright

The timeline summarises the findings presented in the book and re-orders them in chronological order. Dividing land into sunny and shady parts was originally a technical North British legal concept to do with land tenure, evidenced in manuscripts from the twelfth century and with counterparts in Scandinavia known as solskifte. When the open-field system was abandoned, houses built on former sunny divisions retained the name Sunnyside. Greens was the Scottish Gaelic expression of the same concept. The name largely stayed within North Britain until the Nonconformist movements of the 1600s spread it southwards via networks of travelling Quakers, who took it to North America. In 1816 Washington Irving saw Sunnyside, Melrose when visiting Sir Walter Scott, and renamed his house Sunnyside accordingly. Wealthy London nonconformists named their grand suburban villas Sunnyside, consolidating the trend. Twentieth-century plotlands house-naming is also considered, and the prevalence of historic sol- farm names in Scandinavia.



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