| Specifically, I will engage the arguments of Stark and Neff in "Permanently Beta," Noam's arguments in "The Economics of User Generated Content and Peer-to-Peer: The Commons as the Enabler of Commerce" since both of these suggest to that the method of production occurs only under a narrower set of conditions than those which Moglen has elaborated.
Anarchic production
- bring in Stark and heterarchy, Benkler and peer production
Proprietary production
- private ownership of intellectual property
Differences between the two modes of production
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Contexts in which these modes work best
- Noam
- Moglen
Tendency for the anarchic mode to work more than in the past
- the consequences of zero marginal cost networks are that it is now significantly more effective than in the past
- in some situations it is more efficacious
- the lack of profitability in the production of goods but rather in the entrepreneurship of exploiting re-combinations (the "permanently beta" argument)
Conclusion
- necessary, but not sufficient conditions have been elaborated
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