Letter to Greta
Dear Greta Thunberg,
it has come to our attention that you are currently the most powerful single voice and advocate for environmental protection and sustainable wealth creation in the world. It also came to our attention that you have taken out protections against misuses of your name character and personality rights in this regard. We want to implore you to go a step further and make your name a 'public good', which will make a positive contribution to shared citizen wealth now and in the future....
CultureBanked is working to ensure principles and systems (as proposed by Elinor Ostrom and eminent economists such as Marianna Mazucato and others) for ownership and intellectual property rights (IP) support carbon capture and environmental protections, rather than contribute to the endless extraction of nature's materials through profit - rather than resource - sharing. We would like to invite you to make positive use of IP regimes in order to use your excellent name and reputation as a public good with managed community common rights which, due to your enormous celebrity will enable any commercial uses to collect a public equity contribution to support the many public interests and environmental causes, including enactment of citizen assemblies and carrying out their executive decisions; a Citizens Wealth Fund.
As shared wealth management is in its infancy and tools are only emerging, we would also like to use your good name and personality rights as one of our 'use cases' in a process of co-designing systems for managing shared goods in this way. We call this process Community Rights Management, which involves, specifically, the common ownership and sharing of IP rights such as yours to raise common capital. This can be done in various ways, including the payment of taxes 'under license' and digitally on sales and consumption - rather than on later profits, if, when and where declared - long after production/consumption has taken place. This is really important to tackle extractive, ill-contributing corporations.
By initiating such processes, we will be able to take collective responsibilities for decision making about what kind of goods should be produced, how they should be rated according to whether they should be subsidised or whether producers should pay a higher tax rate for profit and raw material extraction. We already do this via different governments, but we will make these decisions more immediate and bring them closer to the communities who they affect or who are, in fact producing the goods.
Such 'licenses for production' of commonly owned goods can only be produced if there are genuinely participatory, accessible democratic processes in place to enable contributory commons to be managed. We want new citizens assemblies to take on responsibilities for rating goods according to environmental sustainability and social usefulness, with regard to managing markets and cost structures where appropriate and necessary. That is why we are building interfaces and services for participatory democracy and 'user centred rights management'.
Please help us!?
Yours in common,
Liam Murphy
CultureBanked
Dear Greta Thunberg,
it has come to our attention that you are currently the most powerful single voice and advocate for environmental protection and sustainable wealth creation in the world. It also came to our attention that you have taken out protections against misuses of your name character and personality rights in this regard. We want to implore you to go a step further and make your name a 'public good', which will make a positive contribution to shared citizen wealth now and in the future....
CultureBanked is working to ensure principles and systems (as proposed by Elinor Ostrom and eminent economists such as Marianna Mazucato and others) for ownership and intellectual property rights (IP) support carbon capture and environmental protections, rather than contribute to the endless extraction of nature's materials through profit - rather than resource - sharing. We would like to invite you to make positive use of IP regimes in order to use your excellent name and reputation as a public good with managed community common rights which, due to your enormous celebrity will enable any commercial uses to collect a public equity contribution to support the many public interests and environmental causes, including enactment of citizen assemblies and carrying out their executive decisions; a Citizens Wealth Fund.
As shared wealth management is in its infancy and tools are only emerging, we would also like to use your good name and personality rights as one of our 'use cases' in a process of co-designing systems for managing shared goods in this way. We call this process Community Rights Management, which involves, specifically, the common ownership and sharing of IP rights such as yours to raise common capital. This can be done in various ways, including the payment of taxes 'under license' and digitally on sales and consumption - rather than on later profits, if, when and where declared - long after production/consumption has taken place. This is really important to tackle extractive, ill-contributing corporations.
By initiating such processes, we will be able to take collective responsibilities for decision making about what kind of goods should be produced, how they should be rated according to whether they should be subsidised or whether producers should pay a higher tax rate for profit and raw material extraction. We already do this via different governments, but we will make these decisions more immediate and bring them closer to the communities who they affect or who are, in fact producing the goods.
Such 'licenses for production' of commonly owned goods can only be produced if there are genuinely participatory, accessible democratic processes in place to enable contributory commons to be managed. We want new citizens assemblies to take on responsibilities for rating goods according to environmental sustainability and social usefulness, with regard to managing markets and cost structures where appropriate and necessary. That is why we are building interfaces and services for participatory democracy and 'user centred rights management'.
Please help us!?
Yours in common,
Liam Murphy
CultureBanked
