[Networked] Memory Institutions: Social Remembering, Privatization and Its Discontents
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SOCIAL REMEMBERING, PRIVATIZATION AND ITS
DISCONTENTS
GUY PESSACH *
INTRODUCTION ............................................................................... 73
PART II - PARADIGMS SHIFTS IN THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF
MEMORY INSTITUTIONS ........................................................ 76
A. From Control to Distribution .......................................... 77
B. Redundancy and Information Flow as New Forms of
Cultural Preservation .................................................... 79
C. The Convergence of Communicative Spheres - Cultural
Production and Cultural Exchange as Derivative Memory
Institutions .................................................................... 80
D. The Decentralized Dynamism of Networked Memory
Institutions .................................................................... 82
E . Sum m ation ...................................................................... 84
PART III - THE PRIVATIZATION OF MEMORY INSTITUTIONS ............. 85
A. The Emergence of Cultural Retrieval Markets and
Commercial Memory Institutions ................................... 86
(I) Commercializing Cultural Preservation ........... 86
(II) The Impact of Audience Attention and Excess
Capacity - Social Networks, Content-Sharing
Platforms and Social Remembering .................... 88
B. The Key Impact of Copyright Law on the Privatization of
Networked Memory Institutions ..................................... 92
(I) Commodification, Mergers and Acquisitions of
Intangible Cultural Portfolios ............................. 92
(II) Transforming the Cultural DNA of Traditional
Memory Institutions ............................................ 97
(a) C oercion ......................................................... 97
(b ) Evolu tion .......................................................... 10 1
* Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Affiliate Fellow,
Information Society Project, Yale Law School. Earlier drafts of this work were presented
at Yale Law School's Information Society Research Seminar and at the Max-Planck
Institute for Collective Goods (Young Scholars' Research Seminar on Commons Theory).
I am indebted to jack Balkin, Michael Birnhack, Richard Cox, Bret Frischmann, Lawrence
Lessig, Julia Sonnevend, Steven Wilf, and Tim Wu for their very thoughtful comments.
©2008 Guy Pessach.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/caelj26&div=6&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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