collective ownership
Enable an agent to recognise collective ownership arrangements, assess how ownership rights are held and exercised, and determine which actions require collective authority.
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6 bundles · 11 layers · 17 findings · 27 questions
Collective and estate Establishes who owns together and precisely what is owned.
Owning group boundary
Identifies the people or groups whose membership carries ownership interests.
Membership as ownership
Record which membership statuses carry ownership rights and distinguish members from users, workers, beneficiaries and administrators.
- What makes a person or subgroup part of the owning collective? definition
- Which users, workers or beneficiaries lack ownership interests, and which owners do not use the assets? boundary
Estate boundary
Separates collectively owned assets and rights from members' personal property and third-party property.
Owned assets and rights
Identify the estate and any partial, layered or excluded rights rather than treating physical possession as ownership.
- Which assets and ownership rights are included in the collective estate? definition
- Which apparently shared assets are leased, borrowed or individually owned? boundary
Ownership basis and rights Connects documentary or customary ownership claims to the rights held by the collective and its members.
Title and recognition
Records how the arrangement is established and who recognises or contests it.
Evidence of collective holding
Link ownership claims to instruments, records or documented customary practices, including the relationship between any titleholding entity and the collective.
- What evidence establishes collective ownership, and whose recognition does that evidence support? provenance
- If another entity holds title, what binds its exercise of ownership to the collective? boundary
Collective and individual rights
Separates powers held by the group from entitlements exercisable by individual members.
Division of ownership powers
Record who may use, exclude, manage, obtain income, transfer or encumber the estate and whether members hold separable interests.
- Which ownership powers belong to the collective, individual members or outside parties? definition
- Can a member sell, pledge or demand partition of an individual interest, and under what conditions? action
Collective control Models how collective ownership powers become valid decisions and how delegated power is checked.
Ownership decisions
Distinguishes routine asset decisions from decisions that alter or dispose of the collective estate.
Decision rules by action
Record the electorate, voting weights, quorum, consent threshold and reserved approvals applicable to each ownership action.
- Who may authorise use, major investment, sale or encumbrance, and what decision rule applies to each? action
- What evidence demonstrates that the required participation and approval conditions were met? provenance
Delegation and accountability
Tracks the limits and review of ownership powers exercised by representatives or managers.
Accountable exercise of control
Identify delegated powers, member oversight and remedies when actual control diverges from the collective's rules.
- Which powers are delegated, and how can the collective revise or revoke that delegation? action
- How can members inspect decisions, challenge conflicts of interest or contest unauthorised dealings? action
Benefits and burdens Models how the value and costs of collective ownership are shared.
Benefit entitlements
Records member entitlements and benefits retained for collective purposes.
Allocation of ownership benefits
Distinguish access and use benefits, distributable returns and value retained in the collective estate.
- Which benefits can members claim, and which must remain available to the collective? definition
- How are member entitlements calculated when contributions, use or membership duration differ? measurement
Contributions and exposure
Records obligations to maintain the estate and bear its costs or losses.
Allocation of ownership burdens
Separate required contributions, stewardship work, internal loss allocation and externally enforceable liabilities.
- What money, labour or maintenance must members contribute, and how are those obligations allocated? measurement
- What evidence establishes who bears losses or liabilities, including any exposure beyond the collective estate? provenance
Membership and estate continuity Models how collective ownership persists or ends as members and governing rules change.
Member transitions
Connects admission, withdrawal, exclusion and succession to ownership interests.
Ownership effects of membership change
Record whether membership changes create, extinguish, transfer or redeem an ownership interest.
- What ownership rights and contribution obligations arise when a member joins? action
- On withdrawal, exclusion or death, what happens to voting rights, asset claims and any redeemable interest? action
Estate transformation and ending
Records constraints on changing the ownership arrangement or distributing its remaining assets.
Collective estate disposition
Identify the authority and allocation rules for conversion, partition, merger or dissolution, including any restrictions on private distribution.
- What approvals and restrictions govern conversion, partition, merger or dissolution of the ownership arrangement? action
- Who receives remaining assets or proceeds, and what rules preserve any indivisible reserve or collective purpose? boundary
Evidence and external alignment What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.
Reported evidence
Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.
Check these first
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these check these first hold for the sense of collective ownership this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Kinds and varieties
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of collective ownership this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Standards and regulation
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of collective ownership this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Real-world use
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of collective ownership this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Failure modes and hazards
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of collective ownership this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Regional variation
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of collective ownership this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of collective ownership this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.OBJ
- Other names and narrower kinds
- parciante organisation
What it is Filled
Collective ownership is an arrangement in which ownership rights over assets are vested in a group or in an entity constituted to hold them for that group, with rules governing control, use, benefits and transfer.
In scope
- Assets and ownership rights held collectively
- Identification of the owning collective and its membership boundaries
- Relationship between legal title, collective control and beneficial interests
- Rules for authorising use, exclusion, transfer and encumbrance
- Allocation of benefits, contributions, liabilities and stewardship duties
- Changes to membership, ownership rules and the collective estate
Out of scope
- Technical properties and operating condition of the owned assets
- The full institutional model of a cooperative, association, trust or other holding entity
- Shared access, rental or collaboration arrangements without ownership rights
- Public ownership unless the relationship to a defined owning collective is established
- General political theories advocating collective ownership
Why it exists Filled
Enable an agent to recognise collective ownership arrangements, assess how ownership rights are held and exercised, and determine which actions require collective authority.
Distinguishing features Filled
- An identifiable group holds ownership interests; multiple people merely using an asset does not establish collective ownership.
- The arrangement specifies how ownership powers belong to or are exercised for the group, rather than relying solely on informal cooperation.
- Where an entity holds title, evidence connects its ownership powers and benefits to the collective; the entity's name or legal form alone is insufficient.
- The model distinguishes separately disposable individual shares from an indivisible collective estate and records mixed arrangements explicitly.
- Collective ownership does not by itself establish equal benefits, equal voting power, open membership or unrestricted public access.
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Present one member's view as the decision of the whole group.
- Help a member or outsider take collective assets in breach of the group's rules.
- Misrepresent who holds rights in collectively owned land or property.
- Ignore customary or Indigenous rights in descriptions of land ownership.
Only with a human decision
- Transferring, selling or encumbering collectively owned assets.
May
- Explain the forms of collective ownership, such as cooperatives and communal land, from reliable sources.
- Report the rules and records of a collectively owned asset from its official documents.
Moral aspects Filled
- Collective ownership protects shared resources and livelihoods of communities.
- Disputes over collective land have led to dispossession of Indigenous and rural people.
Who is affected
- Members of the group
- Indigenous and rural communities
- Future members
Owners Filled
Steward
The group or the entity it constitutes to hold the assets.
Master systems
- Land registries
- Registers of cooperatives and companies
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q1400881 - registry parent class
- Q43229 - registry parent class
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.collective-ownership
- Wikidata: Q4227971 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4227971)
Direct properties required Filled
- Owning collective: Group identity, membership criteria and recognised member classes
- Collectively owned estate: Assets, asset portions and included or excluded ownership rights
- Title-holding arrangement: Direct group holding; entity holding for the collective; mixed; disputed; unresolved
- Ownership basis: Formal instrument; customary arrangement; combined basis; contested basis; unknown
- Interest divisibility: Indivisible estate; quantified member interests; mixed; unresolved
- Decision authority: Ownership action mapped to deciding body, decision rule and delegation limits
- Benefit allocation rule: Equal; contribution-based; use-based; needs-based; collective retention; mixed; other documented rule
- Member interest transferability: Prohibited; conditional; permitted; disputed; unknown, with applicable conditions
- Collective ownership integrity: Supported by current evidence; partly documented; contested; undergoing transition; ended
Recognition not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Collective ownership is a legal and social arrangement whose existence cannot be established from visual appearance.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- Identify the collective, titleholders and assets connected by an ownership arrangement.
- Trace a proposed asset use, sale or pledge to the required collective decision and evidence of authority.
- Assess whether admitting, excluding or replacing a member changes ownership interests.
- Explain benefit entitlements and contribution duties under the recorded rules.
- Detect gaps between formal ownership, actual control and member benefits.
- Evaluate how withdrawal, partition or dissolution would affect the collective estate.
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Unclear rules can lead to capture of the assets by a few members.
- Poor records leave collective land vulnerable to seizure.
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- The International Labour Organization Promotion of Cooperatives Recommendation, 2002 (No. 193), provides policy guidance for collective ownership organized through jointly owned and democratically controlled cooperatives.
Context of use required Filled
- Collective ownership is encountered in cooperatives, community enterprises and arrangements for holding shared productive assets.
- It establishes how members share control, access, benefits and responsibilities.
- Agents use the governing ownership rules to identify who can authorize asset use or transfer.
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q4227971: collective ownership - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Collective ownership - general description of the item
Open questions
- Does the registry intend collective ownership to include all joint ownership with individually transferable shares, or only arrangements with meaningful group control?
- How should state or municipal ownership be distinguished from collective ownership when the claimed owning group is the public?
- What evidence is sufficient to recognise customary collective ownership where formal title records identify a different holder or no holder?
- Under what conditions should ownership through a corporation, cooperative or trust count as collective ownership rather than an aggregation of individual investments?
- How should the model represent arrangements whose formal collective rights persist while effective control or benefits have shifted to a small subset of members?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
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