Bataille's theory of the accursed share led him to apply his general economics to the human sacrices of the Aztecs, the military enterprises of early Islam, the Lamaism of the Tibetans, the Protestant Reformation, Soviet Industrialization and the Marshall Plan. Writing in the late 1940s, Bataille maintained the belief that the socialist revolution would end in a return to a sovereign existence as he denes it. His project of a general economics therefore was ultimately an attempt to imagine a future society that reconciles social equality with individual sovereignty. But Bataille did not live to see this project realized. I therefore want to assert the bold claim that the movement of free culture can be read as a fulllment of Bataille's unrealized project of human sovereignty. For us, sovereignty is attained through contributions to the free economy of the commons and a mastery of computing environments. This is what I will call THE SOVEREIGNTY OF FREE CULTURE. - Miguel Caetano