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	A ''faction license''' would be a [[parametric license]] alternative to a single monolithic [[Consumerium license]]. It would not assign all rights to the [[Consumerium Governance Organization]] permanently but would only let the CGO use the information in [[Consumerium Services]] as long as it obeyed some ground rules that ensured the faction of [[due process]] in dealings with the other factions. This would help equalize power among those factions that do and don't have their own [[healthy buying infrastructure]] in place or work as operators. It would potentially work as follows:		A '''faction license''' would be a [[parametric license]] alternative to a single monolithic [[Consumerium license]]. It would not assign all rights to the [[Consumerium Governance Organization]] permanently but would only let the CGO use the information in [[Consumerium Services]] as long as it obeyed some ground rules that ensured the faction of [[due process]] in dealings with the other factions. This would help equalize power among those factions that do and don't have their own [[healthy buying infrastructure]] in place or work as operators. It would potentially work as follows:

	Each [[faction]] here could specify its own variant of [[Creative Commons]] to apply, and set terms for sharing information with the others along those parametric lines. For instance if one faction preferred not to release data for commercial purposes or had no right to do so, it would be able to set a price (infinite if the transaction is impossible) on relaxing those terms to allow commercial use. This being done in advance, any commercial deployment of the information would invoke a known-in-advance payment. This is exactly how the [[recording industry royalty]] system works: by specifying clearly in advance how much songwriters, singers, producers, arrangers, are paid, it is absolutely certain that no [[cease and desist letter]]s will be received - the price for this [[rights clearance]] is also certain. Only instead of having a single entity per country to collect for all artists in that country, we have global factions to do it on behalf of all those who ask for similar terms.		Each [[faction]] here could specify its own variant of [[Creative Commons]] to apply (much as the [[Green Documentation License\|Green Documentation]], [[Green Patent License\|Patent]] and [[Green Software License\|Software License]]s are expected to do), and set simple terms for sharing information with the others along those parametric lines. For instance if one faction preferred not to release data for commercial purposes or had no right to do so, it would be able to set a price (infinite if the transaction is impossible) on relaxing those terms to allow commercial use. This being done in advance, any commercial deployment of the information would invoke a known-in-advance payment. This is exactly how the [[recording industry royalty]] system works: by specifying clearly in advance how much songwriters, singers, producers, arrangers, are paid, it is absolutely certain that no [[cease and desist letter]]s will be received - the price for this [[rights clearance]] is also certain. Only instead of having a single entity per country to collect for all artists in that country, we have global factions to do it on behalf of all those who ask for similar terms.

	The only requirement CGO would have for materials in the [[Research Wiki]] then would be that they be clearable for a known price for release to the [[Signal Wiki]]. Anyone who wanted to consult that information directly in the [[Consumerium buying signal]] might then have to pay or trade something for that right. It would become possible to make a living providing hard to find or verifying hard to verify data. Once in the [[Signal Wiki]], the uniform [[Consumerium License]] would apply, which might itself be a [[parametric license]] - though it should not be one that requires cash payments - though maybe [[revert currency]] is involved.		The only requirement CGO would have for materials in the [[Research Wiki]] then would be that they be clearable for a known price for release to the [[Signal Wiki]]. Anyone who wanted to consult that information directly in the [[Consumerium buying signal]] might then have to pay or trade something for that right. It would become possible to make a living providing hard to find or verifying hard to verify data. Once in the [[Signal Wiki]], the uniform [[Consumerium License]] would apply, which might itself be a [[parametric license]] - though it should not be one that requires cash payments - though maybe [[revert currency]] is involved.

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A ''faction license''' would be a [[parametric license]] alternative to a single monolithic [[Consumerium license]]. It would not assign all rights to the [[Consumerium Governance Organization]] permanently but would only let the CGO use the information in [[Consumerium Services]] as long as it obeyed some ground rules that ensured the faction of [[due process]] in dealings with the other factions. This would help equalize power among those factions that do and don't have their own [[healthy buying infrastructure]] in place or work as operators. It would potentially work as follows:

Each [[faction]] here could specify its own variant of [[Creative Commons]] to apply, and set terms for sharing information with the others along those parametric lines. For instance if one faction preferred not to release data for commercial purposes or had no right to do so, it would be able to set a price (infinite if the transaction is impossible) on relaxing those terms to allow commercial use. This being done in advance, any commercial deployment of the information would invoke a known-in-advance payment. This is exactly how the [[recording industry royalty]] system works: by specifying clearly in advance how much songwriters, singers, producers, arrangers, are paid, it is absolutely certain that no [[cease and desist letter]]s will be received - the price for this [[rights clearance]] is also certain. Only instead of having a single entity per country to collect for all artists in that country, we have global factions to do it on behalf of all those who ask for similar terms.

The only requirement CGO would have for materials in the [[Research Wiki]] then would be that they be clearable for a known price for release to the [[Signal Wiki]]. Anyone who wanted to consult that information directly in the [[Consumerium buying signal]] might then have to pay or trade something for that right. It would become possible to make a living providing hard to find or verifying hard to verify data. Once in the [[Signal Wiki]], the uniform [[Consumerium License]] would apply, which might itself be a [[parametric license]] - though it should not be one that requires cash payments - though maybe [[revert currency]] is involved.

Such a flexible system would encourage factions of very widely, even violently, disagreeing character, to make clear deals with each other to achieve the common purpose of releasing the maximum amount of reliable information, but would not require all parties involved to trust each other equally in [[wiki management]].

Though such a flexible system seems like a pain initially, it is a major advantage for [[Distributed Consumerium]] when there is great risk of data being splintered. Factions could presumably start variant [[Consumerium Services]] reserving the right to hack the data any way they wanted, but, they'd have to honour the agreements made with others who had authored [[ConsuML]] material, which might not be with the operators directly. In order to keep the [[due process]] in force, the [[CGO]] would act as a referee among the [[faction]]s, some of which would operate hardware, and some not, but all of whom would use the same [[parametric license]] regime. The CGO would become something of a regulated market in information. Much like a [[stock exchange]].

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