Lawrence Liang: Guide to Open Content Licenses v1.2 (2004)

Copyright is one of the most hotly contested areas of contemporary cultures. Many feel that current copyright regulations fail to meet the needs of information society and the realities of creative work. Many new practices of copyright – licenses which maintain the chosen rights of authors, but which work with rather than block the creative opportunities of the digital public domain – have emerged over the last few years.

This is the first systematic survey of the major open content licenses. Presented in a handy pocket-format it is designed both for non-specialists want to choose an appropriate use of copyright and for people who want solid background information.

Whether you are an artist, a peer-to-peer file sharer, or author of scientific papers the Guide to Open Content Licenses will provide you with an invaluable oversight and a how-to guide.

Published by Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool Rotterdam
Size: 110 A6 pages, paperbound
ISBN: 90-72855-16-7
Price: a gift
Additional material, chapter 1: Florian Cramer
Editors: Florian Cramer, Matthew Fuller, Calum Selkirk
Graphic design and book typography: Femke Snelting
HTML version: Florian Cramer
December 2004
Published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license.

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Suman Sahai, Prasmi Pavithran, Indrani Barpujari: Biopiracy: Imitations Not Innovations (2007)

Biopiracy, is detailed compilation of the indigenous resources of India, some of which have been the subject of controversial patents over the years. Published by Gene Campaign, a research and advocacy organization , the book is presented in a reader friendly format and includes discussions on Indigenous Knowledge as well as the on the medicinal use of each plant, taken up as a case study.

Publisher Gene Campaign, 2007
ISBN 8190100998
76 pages

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International Commons at the Digital Age. La création en partage (2004)

Creative Commons is a nonprofit that offers an alternative to full copyright to help authors to share and build upon creative works. The book analyses the first questions raised by the introduction of Creative Commons licenses in different legal systems and shows the real accounting of « cultural diversity » through Internet actors self-regulation. The authors defend that open access to information and culture for all is possible.

Edited by Danièle Bourcier & Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay
Published by Romillat
collection Droit et Technologies

This book is available under a Creative Commons license, at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

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