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'''Scholarly Articles and Books about or related to 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@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."
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'''General Articles and Comments Related to CC and CC Related Topics'''
  
*Stephanie C.Ardito,  "Public-Domain Advocacy Flourishes." Information Today 20, no. 7 (2003): 17,19.
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*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/
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*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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*Brian Fitzgerald, Brian, and Ian Oi. "Free Culture: Cultivating the Creative Commons." (2004). http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00000122/
  
*Glenn Otis Brown, "Academic Digital Rights: A Walk on the Creative Commons." Syllabus Magazine (April 2003). http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=7475
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*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
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*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
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*"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
  
*"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
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*Lawrence Lessig, The Creative Commons, RBL, Tokyo (2003).
  
*D.C.  Denison, "For Creators, An Argument for Alienable Rights." Boston Globe, 22 December 2002, E2.
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*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
  
*Brian Fitzgerald, Brian, and Ian Oi. "Free Culture: Cultivating the Creative Commons." (2004). http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00000122/
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*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
  
*Sally M Johnstone, "Sharing Educational Materials Without Losing Rights," Change 35, no. 6 (2003): 49-51.
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*D.C.  Denison, "For Creators, An Argument for Alienable Rights." Boston Globe, 22 December 2002, E2. (No online link available at this time).  
  
*Lawrence Lessig, The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World Random House, 2001.
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*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
  
*Lawrence Lessig, Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace Basic Books, 1999.
 
  
*Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture Random House, 2003.
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'''Books Related to CC and CC Related Topics'''
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*Lawrence Lessig, (1999). Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 046503912X.
  
*Lawrence Lessig, The Creative Commons, RBL, Tokyo (2003).
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*Lawrence Lessig, (2001). The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World. New York: Random House. ISBN: 0375505784.  
  
* "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
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*Lawrence Lessig, (2005). Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity. New York: Penguin. ISBN 9780143034650 2003.http://www.free-culture.cc/freeculture.pdf
  
*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
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*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/
  
*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
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*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/
  
*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
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*Yochai Benkler, (2006). The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. New Haven: Yale University Press.ISBN: 0300110561. http://www.benkler.org/wealth_of_networks/index.php/Download_PDFs_of_the_book.
 
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'''Law Review/Law Journal Articles about Creative Commons'''
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'''Law Journal Articles about CC and CC Related Topics'''
  
 
* 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
 
* 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
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* Jeffrey L. Harrison, Creativity or Commons: A Comment on Professor Lessig, 55 Fla. L. Rev. 795 (2003).
 
* 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).  
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*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).  
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*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).
 
* Robert P. Merges, A New Dynamism in the Public Domain, 71 U. Chi. L. Rev. 183 (Winter 2004).
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*Matthew Dean Stratton, Will Lessig Succeed in Challenging the CTEA, Post-Eldred?, 15 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. 893 (Spring, 2005).
 
*Matthew Dean Stratton, Will Lessig Succeed in Challenging the CTEA, Post-Eldred?, 15 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. 893 (Spring, 2005).
  
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'''Criticisms  of Creative Commons'''
'''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.
 
*Media Release: AFC provides no Sanctuary for Australian performers: http://modfilms.com/archives/doc/20050330_meaa_pressrelease.pdf.
  
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*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
 
*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
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*Péter Benjamin Tóth, “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

Revision as of 21:31, 10 July 2006

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@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

2005


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

2003

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

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 Larry

  • Lawrence Lessig, (1999). Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 046503912X.
  • Lawrence Lessig, (2001). The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World. New York: Random House. ISBN: 0375505784.
  • 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/
  • 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/



Law Journal Articles about CC and CC Related Topics

  • 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).

Criticisms of Creative Commons

  • 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
  • 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