Information and Contract Design for Repeated Interactions between...

We study the consequences of information asymmetries and misaligned incentives in settings with multiple independent agents. We model an interaction between a Sender, who holds vital private...

Privacy and/or Trade

International privacy and trade law developed together, but are now engaged in significant conflict. Current efforts to reconcile the two are likely to fail, an

A Tale of Two Theories (of Coordination)

Leveraging and Deleveraging Toward Thick Sovereignty

WAVE: A Decentralized Authorization Framework with Transitive Delegation | USENIX

Michael P Andersen, Sam Kumar, Moustafa AbdelBaky, Gabe Fierro, John Kolb, Hyung-Sin Kim, David E. Culler, and Raluca Ada Popa, University of California, Berkeley

The Purpose of Protocols

Every open social protocol generates shared resources, but none has produced a governance framework adequate to those resources. So who fills that vacuum?

The Purpose of Protocols

Every open social protocol generates shared resources, but none has produced a governance framework adequate to those resources. So who fills that vacuum?

Commoning as Relational Provisioning & Governance | David Bollier

This is the second section of an essay, "Relationalized Finance for Generative Living Systems and Bioregions," by David Bollier and Natasha Hulst. The remaining three sections of the essay will be published in the remaining days of this week. The full essay can be downloaded as a PDF here.

Standard Contracts - Common Paper

Common Paper standard agreements have been downloaded more than 40,000 times and used to close millions of dollars in deals. They are created and maintained by a committee of expert attorneys and released for free under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 License.

Cross-License Collaboratives

decentralizing contributor license agreements

Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization by …

How Control Exists after Decentralization by Galloway, …

Interoperable Sovereignty: The Democratic Alternative to Digital Authoritarianism

A Democratic Architecture for the Digital Age Digital sovereignty has become a central concern for governments worldwide, yet its meaning remains contested. Too often it is framed as...

Composable Trust, Part 3: 1 Community, 3 Sovereigns, No Landlords - Eclectic Corvine Muses

An architectural model to yield members, Rosters, and Venues sovereignty over their own domains, and none over each other’s.

Composable Trust, Part 3: 1 Community, 3 Sovereigns, No Landlords - Eclectic Corvine Muses

An architectural model to yield members, Rosters, and Venues sovereignty over their own domains, and none over each other’s.

A Spectrum of Consent

Blockchain & Decentralized Identity Architect — Internet Cryptography Pioneer — Co-author TLS Security Standard — Collaborative Tools & Patterns

Three essential contracts that protect a startup’s intellectual property – Fisher Hudson Brown Horton

Idaho and California startups should be aware of which types of contracts are essential to protect their intellectual property.