# How to actively thwart enclosure and cooptation of the digital commons

How to [[Actively Thwart Enclosure & Cooptation]] of the [[digital commons]]?  How to avoid [[Enclosure of the digital commons]]?

Legal hacks?
[[Beating the bounds]]?
Trusts?
State laws?

> Typically, information created in the digital commons is designed to stay in the digital commons by using various forms of licensing, including the [[GNU General Public License]] and various [[Creative Commons]] licenses.
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> – [Digital commons (economics) - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_commons_%28economics%29)