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Scholarly Articles and Books about or related to Creative Commons

• Stephanie C.Ardito, "Public-Domain Advocacy Flourishes." Information Today 20, no. 7 (2003): 17,19.

• Christiane Asschenfeldt, "Copyright and Licensing Issues—The International Commons." In CERN Workshop Series on Innovations in Scholarly Communication: Implementing the Benefits of OAI (OAI3), 12 February-14 February 2004 at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. Geneva: CERN, 2004. http://agenda.cern.ch/askArchive.php?base=agenda&categ=a035925&id=a035925s5t6/ video

• Glenn Otis Brown, "Academic Digital Rights: A Walk on the Creative Commons." Syllabus Magazine (April 2003). http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=7475

• Wallys W. Conhaim, "Creative Commons Nurtures the Public Domain." Information Today 19, no. 7 (2002): 52, 54. http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb020603-2.htm

• "Delivering Classics Resources with TEI-XML, Open Source, and Creative Commons Licenses." Cover Pages, 28 April 2004. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2004-04-28-a.html

• D.C. Denison, "For Creators, An Argument for Alienable Rights." Boston Globe, 22 December 2002, E2.

• Brian Fitzgerald, Brian, and Ian Oi. "Free Culture: Cultivating the Creative Commons." (2004). http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00000122/

• Sally M Johnstone,. "Sharing Educational Materials Without Losing Rights." Change 35, no. 6 (2003): 49-51.

• Lawrence Lessig, The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World Random House, 2001.

• Lawrence Lessig, Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace Basic Books, 1999.

• Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture Random House, 2003.

• Lawrence Lessig, The Creative Commons, RBL, Tokyo (2003).

• "Out of the Way: How the Next Copyright Revolution Can Help the Next Scientific Revolution." PLoS Biology 1, no. 1 (2003): 30-31. http://www.plosbiology.org/plosonline/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.0000009

• Hal Plotkin, "All Hail Creative Commons: Stanford Professor and Author Lawrence Lessig Plans a Legal Insurrection." SFGate.com, 11 February 2002. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2002/02/11/creatcom.DTL

• Barbara F. Schloman,"Creative Commons: An Opportunity to Extend the Public Domain." Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 13 October 2003. http://www.nursingworld.org/ojin/infocol/info_12.htm

• Gary Stix, "Some Rights Reserved." Scientific American 288, no. 3 (2003): 46. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=7&articleID=000C2691-4F88-1E40-89E0809EC588EEDF

• Jonathan B. Weitzman, and Lawrence Lessig. "Open Access and Creative Common Sense." Open Access Now, 10 May 2004. http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/archive/?page=features&issue=16

Law Review/Law Journal Articles about Creative Commons

• Jerry Brito and Bridget Dooling, An Orphan Works Affirmative Defense to Copyright Infringement Actions, 12 Mich. Telecomm. Tech. L. Rev. 75 (2005), available at www.mttlr.org—brito&dooling.pdf www.mttlr.org—brito&dooling.pdf

• Brooke Oliver Law Group, P.C., The Artist's Perspective in the Acquisiton, Exhibition, and Preservation of New Media Works, SK061 ALI-ABA 161 (2005).

• Anupam Chander and Sunder, Madhavi, The Romance of the Public Domain, 92 Calif. L. Rev. 1331 (2004).

• Corey Field, Copyright, Technology, and Time: Perspectives on "Interactive" as a Term, 50 J. Copyright Soc'y U.S.A. 49 (2003).

• Martina Gillen, Gavin Sutter, Legal Protection of Copy-Protection Mechanisms, 51 J. Copyright Soc'y U.S.A. 729 (2004).

• Andres Guadamuz Gonzalez, Open Science: Open Source Licenses in Scientific Research, 7 N.C. J.L. & Tech. 321(2006).

• Jeffrey L. Harrison, Creativity or Commons: A Comment on Professor Lessig, 55 Fla. L. Rev. 795 (2003).

• Zachary Katz, Pitfalls of Open Licensing: An Analysis of Creative Commons Licensing, 46 IDEA 391 (2006).

• Niva Elkin-Koren, What Contracts Cannot Do: The Limits of Private Ordering in Facilitiating A Creative Commons, 74 Fordham L. Rev. 375 (November 2005).

• Robert P. Merges, A New Dynamism in the Public Domain, 71 U. Chi. L. Rev. 183 (Winter 2004).

• Christopher Sprigman, Reform(aliz)ing Copyright, 57 Stan. L. Rev. 485 (November, 2004).

• Lawrence Lessig, Dunwoody Distinguished Lecture in law: The Creative Commons, 55 Fla. L. Rev. 763 (2003).

• Lawrence Lessig, Commentary: The Creative Commons, 65 Mont. L. Rev. 1 (Winter, 2004).

• Lawrence Lessig, Free(ing) Culture for Remix, 2004 Utah L. Rev. 961 (2004).

• Lawrence B. Solum,Book Review : The Future of CopyrightFree Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. By Lawrence Lessig, 83 Tex. L. Rev. 1137 (2005).

• Matthew Dean Stratton, Will Lessig Succeed in Challenging the CTEA, Post-Eldred?, 15 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. 893 (Spring, 2005).

Problems with and Criticisms of Creative Commons

• Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale (ALAI), MEMORANDUM ON CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES,http://www.alai-usa.org/Memo%20Creative%20Com%20Licences%20jg%20rev%2022%20jan.doc

• APRA position on CC: http://www.apra.com.au/writers/forms_and_guidelines/creative_commons.asp

• Berry, D. M., & Moss, G. (2005). “On the ‘Creative Commons’: a critique of the commons without commonalty”. Free Software Magazine. No. 5. Retrieved 02/06/05, from http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_05/commons_without_commonality

• Elkin-Koren, Niva, "Creative Commons: A Skeptical View of a Worthy Pursuit" . THE FUTURE OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, P. Bernt Hugenholtz & Lucie Guibault, eds., Kluwer Law International, 2006 Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=885466

• Berry, D. M. (2004). “The Contestation of Code: a Preliminary Investigation Into the Discourse of the Free/libre and Open Source Movement”. Critical Discourse Studies, 1 (1).

• Berry, D.M., Moss, Giles. "Libre Commons = Libre Culture + Radical Democracy."http://www.noemalab.org/sections/ideas/ideas_articles/berry_moss_libre_commons.html

• Media Release: AFC provides no Sanctuary for Australian performers: http://modfilms.com/archives/doc/20050330_meaa_pressrelease.pdf.

• Berry, D. M., & Moss, G. (2005). “On the ‘Creative Commons’: a critique of the commons without commonalty”. Free Software Magazine. No. 5. Retrieved 02/06/05, from http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_05/commons_without_commonality

• Dvorak, John C. (2005. “Creative Commons Humbug”. PC Magazine. Retrieved from http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1838251,00.asp

• Dvorak recants: http://www.joegratz.net/archives/2005/10/27/dvorak-recants-on-creative-commons-humbug/

• Faulder, Sarah (Music Publishers Association, UK) - What Creative Commons means for writers (pdf),http://www.apra.com.au/writers/downloads/creative_commons_writers.pdf

• Ficsor, Mihály, How Did We Arrive Here? The Evolution of Copyright Legislation (the End of?), www.ebu.ch—B.1 M. Ficsor_tcm6-43830.pdf

• Fitzgerald,Michael Copyleft Hits a Snag, http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=16073&ch=infotech

• Hill, Benjamin Mako. (2005). Towards a Standard of Freedom: Creative Commons and the Free Software Movement.,http://mako.cc/writing/toward_a_standard_of_freedom.html

• Nimmer, Raymond (2005). “Open source license proliferation, a broader view”. Retrieved from http://www.ipinfoblog.com/archives/licensing-law-issues-36-open-source-license-proliferation-a-broader-view.html

• Orlowski, Andrew (2005). “On Creativity, Computers and Copyright”. The Register. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/21/creativity/

• Pike,Emma (British Music Rights, UK) - What you need to know about Creative Commons (pdf).http://www.apra.com.au/writers/downloads/creative_commons.pdf

• Prodromou, Evan (2005), debian-legal Summary of Creative Commons 2.0 Licenses,http://people.debian.org/~evan/ccsummary.html

• Stallman, Richard on CC: http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20050920.html.and http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/07/1733220

• Tóth, Péter Benjamin. (2005). “Creative Humbug: Personal feelings about the Creative Commons licenses”. Retrieved from http://www.indicare.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=118, http://www.apra.com.au/writers/downloads/creative_commons.pdf