Scholarship and critique regarding Creative Commons
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://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00000998/
- 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
- Media Release: AFC provides no Sanctuary for Australian performers: http://modfilms.com/archives/doc/20050330_meaa_pressrelease.pdf.
- 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
- D. M. Berry, & Giles Moss, “On the ‘Creative Commons’: a critique of the commons without commonalty,” Free Software Magazine. No. 5., http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_05/commons_without_commonality
- D. M. Berry, & Giles Moss,"Libre Commons = Libre Culture + Radical Democracy."http://www.noemalab.org/sections/ideas/ideas_articles/berry_moss_libre_commons.html
- Niva Elkin-Koren, "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
- John C. Dvorak,“Creative Commons Humbug,” PC Magazine, http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1838251,00.asp, Dvorak's revised position on CC: http://www.joegratz.net/archives/2005/10/27/dvorak-recants-on-creative-commons-humbug/
- Sarah Faulder, "What Creative Commons means for writers," http://www.apra.com.au/writers/downloads/creative_commons_writers.pdf
- Mihály Ficsor, "How Did We Arrive Here? The Evolution of Copyright Legislation (the End of?)," www.ebu.ch—B.1 M. Ficsor_tcm6-43830.pdf
- Michael Fitzgerald, "Copyleft Hits a Snag," http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=16073&ch=infotech
- Benjamin Mako Hill, "Towards a Standard of Freedom: Creative Commons and the Free Software Movement," http://mako.cc/writing/toward_a_standard_of_freedom.html
- Becky Hogge, "What Moves a Movement," http://www.opendemocracy.net/media-commons/movement_3686.jsp.
- Raymond Nimmer, “Open source license proliferation, a broader view," http://www.ipinfoblog.com/archives/licensing-law-issues-36-open-source-license-proliferation-a-broader-view.html
- Andrew Orlowski, “On Creativity, Computers and Copyright," The Register. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/21/creativity/
- Emma Pike, "What you need to know about Creative Commons," http://www.apra.com.au/writers/downloads/creative_commons.pdf
- Evan Prodromou, "debian-legal Summary of Creative Commons 2.0 Licenses," http://people.debian.org/~evan/ccsummary.html
- Richard Stallman, Position on Creative Commons: http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/entry-20050920.html.and http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/07/1733220
- Tóth, Péter Benjamin,“Creative Humbug: Personal feelings about the Creative Commons licenses," http://www.indicare.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=118, http://www.apra.com.au/writers/downloads/creative_commons.pdf