New in knowledge commons research: "Is Decentralized Artificial Intelligence Governable? Towards Machine Sovereignty and Human Symbiosis" from Botao "Amber" Hu, Helena Rong, and Janna Tay. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Me, new on Substack: "Disappointed: What do we talk about when we talk about the challenges facing higher education." I use the recent Penn panel on the future of American universities as a jumping off point. More to come. profmadison.substack.com/p/disappointed

Disappointed

What do we talk about when we talk about the challenges facing higher education

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Today in knowledge commons research: "Unpacking Open Source Bio," a collection of mini-case studies of knowledge commons from the inimitable @jcontreras.bsky.social. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Social media day, round 2: On Substack, I have another in my weekly series of essays about the future of universities. "A Pixar Interlude: What planet is higher education reform ... on?" profmadison.substack.com/p/a-pixar-in...

A Pixar Interlude

What planet is higher education reform ... on?

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It's social media day. The newest episode of "Your Leadership Podcast" with me and Kathy Edersheim is available at open.spotify.com/episode/1huU...

Does leadership begin with voice?

Your Leadership Podcast · Episode

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"Things" and their attributes are the MacGuffins of property law. I'll post links to the occasional new paper. Today's excellent entry: "Personal Property Servitudes Revisited" by Daniel Klerman and Stefan Bechtold. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

While I'm at it: I'm co-hosting a new podcast, called "Your Leadership Podcast." Tasty conversational morsels delivered once every two weeks. Find it here: open.spotify.com/show/633QIpk...

Your Leadership Podcast

Podcast · Michael Madison and Kathy Edersheim · “Your Leadership Podcast” is about you and your leadership journey. Co-hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison take a conversational approach, making lea...

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Catching up on my Substack essays on the future of higher education, here's the most recent: "Choosing to Choose: How a university decides." profmadison.substack.com/p/choosing-t...

Choosing to Choose

How a university decides

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New in knowledge commons scholarship: "Access to Justice as Access to Data" by Tanina Rostain @georgetownlaw.bsky.social scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/nulr/vol119/...

Also new in knowledge commons scholarship: Christopher Mirasola, "Common Heritage as Public Trust: A Property Law Approach to Managing Resources Beyond National Jurisdiction" in the Southern California Law Review. southerncalifornialawreview.com/2024/10/31/c...

New in knowledge commons scholarship: Margaret (Maggie) Chon, "Relational Innovation and the Public Benefits of Copying," in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. btlj.org/wp-content/u...

A neat new knowledge commons project: @institutionaldatainitiative.org

The gift of Pittsburgh. I am passing it along. www.pittsburghmagazine.com/pittsburgh-i...

Pittsburgh Has Big Ideas. One Professor Is Documenting Them.

University of Pittsburgh law professor and author Mike Madison has chronicled Pittsburgh icons as part of his Intellectual Property Hall of Fame.

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John Linarelli@profjohnlinarelli.bsky.social · 2y ago

Outstanding work by my great Pitt Law colleague @michaelmadison.bsky.social

My Substack series on the future of universities continues, with some preliminary attention to how we might get from where we are now to wherever we might want to be, at "Out of the Silos: On universities and institutional change." Find the whole thing at profmadison.substack.com/p/out-of-the...

Out of the Silos

On universities and institutional change

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Fungi! What knowledge commons can teach. "The Failure of Commons? The Obscure Beijing Mushrooms & the Mycelial Networks of Transformation in Everyday Life" by Gladys Pak Lei Chong. journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/po...

Knowledge commons today: "Governing Digital Public Infrastructure as a Commons," from Renata Avila, Ramya Chandrasekhar, Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, and Andrew Rens. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Every Monday, there is something new at "Everything in Between." I continue with my series about the future of universities. "The Field of the University: On flowers and friction." profmadison.substack.com/p/the-field-...

The Field of the University

On flowers and friction

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Knowledge commons, casual carpooling edition. Reyko Huang, "The order of anarchy: How San Francisco’s free rides system can help us understand anarchist theory ..." The same arg about community self-governance and carpools appears in Benkler, "Sharing Nicely," from 2004. aeon.co/essays/what-...

What San Francisco carpooling tells us about anarchism | Aeon Essays

How San Francisco’s free rides system can help us understand anarchist theory and the work of the late, great James C Scott

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The knowledge commons hits keep coming. "The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice," by Simon Parkin www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Fo...

The Forbidden Garden

From the award-winning author of The Island of Extraordinary Captives, the riveting, untold true story of the botanists at the world’s first seed b...

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Knowledge commons in history. Shane Bobrycki, "The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages" press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...

The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages

The importance of collective behavior in early medieval Europe

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This week's Substack entry at "Everything in Between": "The Tragedy of Prestige: Is there a comedy in the university?," in which I carry on my series about the past, present, and future of "the university." profmadison.substack.com/p/the-traged...

The Tragedy of Prestige

Is there a comedy in the university?

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Today in knowledge commons governance research.

Aram Sinnreich@aramsinn.bsky.social · 2y ago

📣 New article from me, Thomas Struett, @paufder.bsky.social & @rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy, available free & #openaccess in the International Journal of Communication: Can This Platform Survive? Governance Challenges for the Fediverse ijoc.org/index.php/ij... #academia

Knowledge commons, today: "Proprietary Data, Open Data, Data Commons: Who Owns the Data? How to Best Reconcile Conflicting Interests in Exploiting the Value of Data and Protecting Against its Risks" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." Happy Thanksgiving from WKRP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SXI...

Today at "Everything in Between" on Substack: "Can You Get Anything You Want? At the university restaurant" It's a metaphor, continuing my exploring the future of higher education. profmadison.substack.com/p/can-you-ge...

Today's knowledge commons update.

Heather Joseph@hjoseph.bsky.social · 2y ago

This week, Authors Alliance and we at SPARC released the first of four white papers on legal issues surrounding open access to federally funded research articles under the 2022 OSTP Nelson Memo. Check it out here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I will miss @rorysmith.bsky.social giving me a hard time in his NYTimes On Soccer newsletter but look forward to renewing our one-sided correspondence as he steps into his new role at @theathletic.bsky.social.

This week at "Everything in Between" on Substack: "Universities Were New, Once: Could they be new again?" profmadison.substack.com/p/universiti...

Universities Were New, Once

Could they be new again?

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Welcome, new followers. I am mostly "knowledge commons all the time," but once a week I'll bring over a short piece from my Substack, which is about institutions and governance broadly. Today: "What We Talk About When We Talk About Universities" profmadison.substack.com/p/what-we-ta...

What We Talk About

When We Talk About Universities

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Commons and knowledge commons alert: The deadline for the Call for Contributions for IASC 2025 (theme: "Regenerating the Commons") has been extended to *November 15.* Read all about it at 2025.iasc-commons.org/call-for-con...