Scholarship and critique regarding Creative Commons

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These articles and comments have been collected to represent the different views about Creative Commons and issues related to Creative Commons. If you know of an article or comment that is not represented here, feel free to let us know about it so that we can consider it for inclusion by emailing us at info[at]creativecommons.org. Articles and comments that are suitable for inclusion here are those which somehow progress and contribute to the debate that surrounds CC & CC-related issues.


General Articles and Comments Related to CC and CC Related Topics

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2004

  • 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/ 2004

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  • Lawrence Lessig, The Creative Commons, RBL, Tokyo (2003). (No online link available at this time).

2002

  • D.C. Denison, "For Creators, An Argument for Alienable Rights." Boston Globe, 22 December 2002, E2. (No online link available at this time).



Books Related to CC and CC Related Topics

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2005

  • Kembrew McLeod, (2005). Freedom of Expression (R) : Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativity. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0385513259.http://www.kembrew.com/books/

2004

  • Danièle Bourcier, Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay et. al., (2004). International Commons at the Digital Age/La création en partage. Paris: Editions Romillat. ISBN 2878940814. http://fr.creativecommons.org/iCommons_book.htm (NB. At the time this book was prepared, iCommons referred to the international licensing project currently known as Creative Commons International)

2001

  • Kembrew McLeod, (2001). Owning Culture: Authorship, Ownership, and Intellectual Property Law (Popular Culture and Everyday Life). New York: Peter Lang Publishing. ISBN 0820451576.http://www.kembrew.com/books/
  • Lawrence Lessig, (2001). The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World. New York: Random House. ISBN 0375505784.

1999

  • Lawrence Lessig, (1999). Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 046503912X.

1997

  • James Boyle (1997). Shamans, Software, and SpleensL Law and the Construction of the Information Society. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674805232.

Law Journal Articles about CC and CC Related Topics

2006

  • Andres Guadamuz Gonzalez, Open Science: Open Source Licenses in Scientific Research, 7 N.C. J.L. & Tech. 321(2006).
  • Zachary Katz, Pitfalls of Open Licensing: An Analysis of Creative Commons Licensing, 46 IDEA 391 (2006).


2005

  • 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
  • Niva Elkin-Koren, What Contracts Cannot Do: The Limits of Private Ordering in Facilitiating A Creative Commons, 74 Fordham L. Rev. 375 (November 2005).
  • Lawrence B. Solum,Book Review : The Future of Copyright Free 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).

2004

  • Anupam Chander and Sunder, Madhavi, 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).
  • Lawrence Lessig, Free(ing) Culture for Remix, 2004 Utah L. Rev. 961 (2004).
  • 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).

2003

  • Jeffrey L. Harrison, Creativity or Commons: A Comment on Professor Lessig, 55 Fla. L. Rev. 795 (2003).
  • Lawrence Lessig, Dunwoody Distinguished Lecture in law: The Creative Commons, 55 Fla. L. Rev. 763 (2003).

Criticisms of/Debate About Creative Commons & CC-related issues

2006

  • 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

2005

->*Creative Commons International's First Submission: http://www.accc.gov.au/content/trimFile.phtml?trimFileName=D05+61451.pdf&trimFileTitle=D05+61451.pdf&trimFileFromVersionId=744729

->*Creative Commons Internationals' Second Submission: http://www.accc.gov.au/content/trimFile.phtml?trimFileName=D05+70075.pdf&trimFileTitle=D05+70075.pdf&trimFileFromVersionId=744729

->*filed as part of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission's consideration of the Australian Performing Rights Association's application for Authorisation of its input & output arrangements. All documents can be found here: http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/744728/display/submission.