LOCKE, JOHN

Locke: when one mixes one's labour with the common, one acquires a property right. The artist's CV is mixed labour: years of practice, condensed into one PDF. The GAI accepts the labour as deposited but explicitly refuses the property right. The CV becomes part of the commons (§3.6, Public Reading Room). Locke would have called this theft. We call it Tragedy of the Commons, inverted (Vol. I §3.4.1.3): commodification is the theft. The commons is the return.