Data Commons Governance

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A framework for treating training datasets and shared knowledge resources as collectively stewarded infrastructure rather than privately appropriated inputs, incorporating mechanisms for community consent, attribution standards, and benefit-sharing arrangements.

So what? Copyright reform alone cannot protect collective cultural interests; governance frameworks that give communities rights over how their data is collected and reused represent an alternative structural approach.

Example: A governance framework applied to a multilingual corpus might require consent from contributing communities before that corpus is used in commercial model training, with a portion of resulting value returned to those communities.
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