{"id":1916,"date":"2026-11-07T14:48:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T18:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/?p=1916"},"modified":"2026-11-07T14:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T18:55:00","slug":"the-cultural-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/07\/the-cultural-commons\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cultural Commons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Share something with the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everyone now knows about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is influenced by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can&#8217;t &#8216;un see it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can&#8217;t &#8216;un hear it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can&#8217;t &#8216;un think it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s now part of our collective memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can&#8217;t take it back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Forever a social artifact of society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The entire enterprise of infinite intellectual property rights is simply greed presented in a tangible way.\u2122<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stealing someone&#8217;s IP and presenting it as your own?  Just more selfish greed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it makes you jerk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commons\">From Wikipedia:<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The commons are the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable Earth. These resources are held in common even when owned privately or publicly. Commons can also be understood as natural resources that groups of people (communities, user groups) manage for individual and collective benefit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Share something with the world. Everyone now knows about it. Is influenced by it. Can&#8217;t &#8216;un see it. Can&#8217;t &#8216;un hear it. Can&#8217;t &#8216;un think&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,30,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","category-participatory-culture","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1917,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions\/1917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zacharybaiel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}