ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores the possibility of constructing a legal concept of the cultural commons. In order to do that law, art and the commons need to be expressly connected. The right to roam in and access nature has in Scandinavia traditionally been considered to be of particular significance since it is directly connected to public health and wellbeing. The wellness produced by continuous and frequent access to nature ought to be, it is argued, secured and safeguarded. The rhizomatic approach to legal reasoning opens up the possibility to conceive such concepts that can handle the public and the private together, as an alliance in law. A cultural commons is imagined as the equivalent of the hiking, cycling, camping and the picking of berries in the cultural environment.
