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Rebalancing interests and power structures on crowdworking platforms

Ayad Al-Ani, Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG)
Stefan Stumpp, Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG)
PUBLISHED ON: 30 Jun 2016 DOI: 10.14763/2016.2.415

This paper is part of Regulating the sharing economy , a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Kristofer Erickson and Inge Sørensen. Disclaimer: This study was completed with the support of the German service sector union ver.di. We would like to thank the participating platforms and their communities for the opportunity to

Sharing without laws: an exploration of social practices and ad hoc labeling standards in online movie piracy

Roberto Tietzmann, Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
Liana Gross Furini, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
PUBLISHED ON: 30 Jun 2016 DOI: 10.14763/2016.2.416

This paper discusses self-labelling standards as sharing mediators in pirated versions of movies available online.

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Wikimedia and the (political) meaning of free knowledge

Nikolas Becker, Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG)
PUBLISHED ON: 02 Apr 2013

In Europe, education and free knowledge are subject to political restrictions that can only be effectively changed on the EU level. Wikimedia, the not-for-profit organisation behind the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, believes this. The organisation could therefore soon open an office in Brussels to participate in the future debates about a