ABSTRACT
The postmodern society is characterized by the replacement of material values with postmaterial values. In this way, new values are established, supported by newly-emerged social movements like for example A2K movement. Today sociologists attach the feature of reflectivity to the postmodern, contemporary society. Reflectivity is a form of social consciousness and one of its principal goals is to reverse unfavourable trends in society. It might be perceived as a new, important competence of our present society. The word Commons in Great Britain was used to denote communal pastures, on which the cattle of villagers grazed. But in the sixteenth century a privatization of common pastures began known as the process of enclosure. Commons as a subject matter returns in cyberspace in a new perspective. When analysing the pooling of rights, one can conclude that in the future it should be more a phenomenon that contributes to the improvement of the whole patent system than an anti-competitive instrument.
