Information Commons Links

by Howard Besser

Information Commons Website, American Library Association (debuts June 2002)
Center for the Public Domain
The Digital Promise: A Digital Gift to the Nation (including April 2001 press release on Newton Minow's and Lawrence Grossman's report recommending a "Digital Land Grant")
Creative Commons (description -- A New Direction for Intellectual Property, New York Times, May 13, 2002-- developing ways for artists, writers and others to legally and easily designate their work as shareable)
The Knowledge Conservancy: Preserving the World's Cultural, Historic, and Scientific Works
Dot-Commons, Center for Digital Democracy
Public Assets, Private Profits; Reclaiming the American Commons in an Age of Market Enclosure, by David Bollier, Washington DC: New America Foundation, March 2001
Digital Future Coalition
Howard's Copyright WebPage and Links
Howard's Public Domain and Public Space links
International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP) [Common Pool Resources Information and Knowledge Commons Bibliography]
Conferences

Nurturing the Cybercommons, 1981-2021, October 2001 conference of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (Ann Arbor)
Conference on the Public Domain, Nov 9-11, 2001, Duke University Law School,

Commodification of Culture Harms Creators, by Howard Besser, prepared Oct 2001 for American Library Association Wye River retreat on Information Commons
Intellectual Property: The Attack on Public Space in Cyberspace, by Howard Besser, to appear in Processed World, Fall 2001
Framing Papers for the Nov 2001 Duke Conference on the Public Domain (by Jamie Boyle, Pam Samuelson, Larry Lessig, Yochai Benkler, etc.)

Common, Community, Allmende, Volker Grassmuck, Make-World Conference Webjournal, October 20, 2001 (remarks on Info Commons from conference session)