Scholarship and critique regarding Creative Commons
Law Review/Law Journal Articles
- Niva Elkin-Koren, What Contracts Cannot Do: The Limits of Private Ordering in Facilitiating A Creative Commons, 74 Fordham L. Rev. 375 (November 2005)
- Matthew J. Astle, Will Congress Kill the Podcasting Star? 19 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 161 (Fall, 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).
- Corey Field, Copyright, Technology, and Time: Perspectives on "Interactive" as a Term, 50 J. Copyright Soc'y U.S.A. 49 (2003).
- Michael N. Lang, The Regulation of Shrink-Wrapped Radio: Implications of Copyright on Podcasting, 14 CommLaw Conspectus 463 (2006).
- 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 about orphan works
- Brooke Oliver, The Artist's Perspective in the Acquisiton, Exhibition, and Preservation of New Media Works, SK061 ALI-ABA 161 (2005).
- Lawrence Lessig, Free(ing) Culture for Remix, 2004 Utah L. Rev. 961 (2004).
- Martina Gillen, Gavin Sutter, Legal Protection of Copy-Protection Mechanisms, 51 J. Copyright Soc'y U.S.A. 729 (2004).
- Dan Hunter, F. Gregory Lastowka, Amateur-to-Amateur, 46 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 951 (2004).
- Jeffrey L. Harrison, Creativity or Commons: A Comment on Professor Lessig, 55 Fla. L. Rev. 795 (2003). critical
- Zachary Katz, Pitfalls of Open Licensing: An Analysis of Creative Commons Licensing, 46 IDEA 391 (2006).
- Andres Guadamuz Gonzalez, Open Science: Open Source Licenses in Scientific Research, 7 N.C. J.L. & Tech. 321(2006).
- David W. Opderbeck, The Penguin's Genome, or Coase and Open Source Biotechnology, 18 Harv. J. Law & Tec 167 (Fall, 2004).
- Jennifer R. Mueller, NOTE: All Mixed Up: Bridgeport Music v. Dimension Films and De Minimis Digital Sampling, 81 Ind. L.J. 435 (2006).
- Anupam Chander and Madhavi Sunder, The Romance of the Public Domain, 92 Calif. L. Rev. 1331 (2004).
- Lawrence Lessig, Commentary: The Creative Commons, 65 Mont. L. Rev. 1 (Winter, 2004).
- Rosemary J. Coombe, Fear, Hope, and Longing for the Future of Authorship and Revitalized Public Domain in Global Regimes of Intellectual Property, 52 DePaul L. Rev. 1171 (Summer 2003).
- Matthew Dean Stratton, Will Lessig Succeed in Challenging the CTEA, Post-Eldred?, 15 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. 893 (Spring, 2005).
- Lawrence Lessig, Dunwody Distinguished Lecture in law: The Creative Commons, 17 Wash. U. J.L. & Pol'y 233 (2002).
- James Gibson, Once and Future Copyright, 81 Notre Dame L. Rev. 167 (2005).
- Molly Shaffer Van Houweling, Distributive Values in Copyright, 83 Tex. L. Rev. 1535 (2005).
- 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).
- Brian W. Carver, Share and Share Alike: Understanding and Enforcing Open Source and Free Software Licenses, 20 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 443 (2005).
- J. H. Reichman and Paul F. Uhlir, The Public Domain: A Contractually Reconstructed Research Commons for Scientific Data in a Highly Protectionist Intellectual Property Environment, 66 Law & Contemp. Prob. 315, (2003).
Articles
- 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
- 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/
- 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, 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
- 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
- Orlowski, Andrew (2005). “On Creativity, Computers and Copyright”. The Register. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/21/creativity/
- 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
- 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.
- Sarah Faulder (Music Publishers Association, UK) - What Creative Commons means for writers (pdf),http://www.apra.com.au/writers/downloads/creative_commons_writers.pdf
- Emma Pike (British Music Rights, UK) - What you need to know about Creative Commons (pdf).http://www.apra.com.au/writers/downloads/creative_commons.pdf
- APRA position on CC: http://www.apra.com.au/writers/forms_and_guidelines/creative_commons.asp