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istl-2427		Understanding Knowledge as a Commons [Review]			.html	text/html	1402	47	35	For an instructive essay on the perceived barrier of intellectual property, the eighth chapter of this volume, Shubha Ghosh' How to Building a Commons: Is Intellectual Property Constrictive, Facilitating or Irrelevant? is well situated within the practical and is perhaps the best current explication available for STM librarianship regarding Knowledge Commons access concerns particular to those disciplines. Pointing out that the Commons and the free market are not natural adversaries, David Bollier's Growth of the Commons Paradigm presents a theory of how the growth of the Commons depends upon the relational exchange between the practitioner and the theoretician, noting that the notion of the Commons leads naturally to practical new models for representing, organizing and controlling Commons resources.	cache/istl-2427.html	txt/istl-2427.txt