On the Legal Structure of Digital Commons

Abstract

This article explores the legal structure of small-scale entrepreneurial digital commons. It links digital commons with the organizational innovations of digital economy and the findings of network theory, since networking forms the backbone of digital commons. The organizational structure of digital commons, founded on three pillars, the Productive Community, the Commons Oriented Entrepreneurial Coalition and the For Benefit Association, is associated with the network structure adopted by such projects, broken down to a decisionmaking and a value network. digital economy, digital commons, small-scale networks, network-enterprise, franchise