Talk:INFO 290 Spring 2010 Syllabus

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• Introductory Material Re The Commons, Free Software, and Open Source
  • Garrett Hardin, The Tragedy of the Commons, Science (Dec. 13, 1968).
  • Tim O'Reilly, Open Source Paradigm Shift.
  • Yochai Benkler, Coase's Penguin, or, Linux and The Nature of the Firm, 112 Yale L.J. (2002-03).
  • Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software, O'Reilly (Mar. 2002).
  • Richard Stallman, GNU Manifesto.
  • Brian W. Carver, Share and Share Alike: Understanding and Enforcing Open Source and Free Software Licenses, 20 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 443 (2005) (First 30 pages or so provides background on free software and open source movements and their respective approaches and includes discussion of key features of GPL licensing and enforcement).
  • Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, Yale Univ. Press (2006) (Chapter 3).
  • David Bollier, Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own, New Press (2009).
  • Steven Weber, The Success of Open Source Software, (2004), Chaps. 1-2.
  • Elinor Ostrom, Reformulating the Commons (Oct. 30, 1998).
  • Aldo Cortesi, Elinor Ostrom, the commons problem and Open Source (Dec. 10, 2009).
  • Charles M. Schweik and Meelis Kitsing, Applying Elinor Ostrom's Rule Classification Framework to the Analysis of Open Source Software Commons Transnational Corporations Review 2.1 (2010): 13-26.

• Open Source as a Production Process
  • Steven Weber, The Success of Open Source Software, (2004), Chaps. 3-4.
  • Karl Fogel, Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project, (2006), Chaps. 3-4.
  • Eric Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar.

• Economics of Open Source
  • Steven Weber, The Success of Open Source Software, (2004), Chaps. 5-6.
  • Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole, The Simple Economics of Open Source.
  • Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Cooking pot markets: an economic model for the trade in free goods and services on the Internet, First Monday 3, 1998.
  • Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, Cambridge Univ. Press (1990).
  • Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric A. Von Hippel, Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation, Harvard Business School Finance Working Paper No. 10-038 (Nov. 2009).

• Open Source Business Models
  • Steven Weber, The Success of Open Source Software, (2004), Chaps. 7-8.
  • Frederick P. Brooks Jr, The Mythical Man-Month: Essays On Software Engineering, Chapters 2 -7 (1977).
  • The "Halloween Document" (Internal Microsoft Memo by Vinod Vallopillil, 1998) annotated by Erik Raymond.
  • Robert Young And Wendy Goldman Rohm, Under The Radar: How Red Hat Changed The Software Business And Took Microsoft By Surprise, Chapters 4 and 5.
  • Chris Rasch, The Wall Street Performer Protocol: Using Software Completion Bonds to Fund Open Source Software Development, First Monday 6.

• User-created Value and Virtual Economies
  • Mia Garlick, Creative Commons presentation in Second Life, "Age of the Conducer" (April 2006).
  • Second Life Terms of Service
  • Cory Ondrejka, Escaping the Gilded Cage: User Created Content and Building the Metaverse, 49 N.Y.L.S. L. Rev. 81 (2004).
  • Dan Hunter & F. Gregory Lastowka, The Laws of the Virtual Worlds, 92 Cal. L. Rev. 1 (2004).
  • Clickable Culture (focus on articles on Second Life)

• Social Production of Music and Other Digital Content
  • Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks, (2006), Chap. 1.
  • Creative Commons Licenses
  • CC Mixter
  • Niva Elkin-Koren, Exploring Creative Commons: A Skeptical View of a Worthy Pursuit, in The Future of the Public Domain: Identifying the Commons in Information Law, (2006).
  • Zachary Katz, Pitfalls of Open Licensing: An Analysis of Creative Commons Licensing, 46 IDEA 391 (2006).

• Regulability of Open Source/Open Source as a Global Phenomenon
  • Lawrence Lessig, The Limits in Open Code: Regulatory Standards & the Future of the Net, 14 Berk. Tech. L. J. 759 (1999).
  • Stephen M. McJohn, The Paradoxes of Free Software, 9 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 25 (2000).

• Conceptual Underpinnings of Free and Open Source Licenses: Property, Contract, or Something Else?
  • Michael Madison, Reconstructing the Software License, 35 Loy.-Chi. L.J. 275 (2003).
  • Glen O. Robinson, Personal Property Servitudes, 71 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1449 (2004).

• Enforceability of Open Source Licenses
  • GNU General Public License (GPL)
  • David McGowan, Legal Implications of Open Source Software, Parts II, III-B, & III-C , 2001 U. Ill. L. Rev. 241 (2001).

• Open Source and Competition in the software industry
  • Angelo Katsoras, Is the Promise (or Threat) of Open-Source Software for Real?, USA Monitor (Dec. 6, 2004).
  • Ronald Mann, The Commercialization of Open Source Software: Do Property Rights Still Matter?, 20 Harv. J. L. & Tech. (2006).
  • IBM Corp., Open Source and Linux
  • Pamela Samuelson, IBM’s Pragmatic Embrace of Open Source, 49 Comm. ACM (forthcoming Oct. 2006).
  • Eben Moglen, Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright,THE COMMODIFICATION OF INFORMATION 107 (Niva Elkin-Koren & Neil Weinstock Netanel, eds. 2002)
  • Sean Silverthorne, Microsoft v. Open Source: Who Will Win?, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge.
  • Open Source Software: Microsoft at the Power Point, The Economist, Sept. 11, 2003. (REQUIRES REGISTRATION)
  • Ray Ozzie, The Internet Services Disruption, Oct. 28, 2005.

• Adapting the Open Source Concept to Biotech Innovations
  • Sara Boettiger & Dan L. Burk, Open Source Patenting, 1 J. Biotech. L. 221 (2004).
  • Arti Rai, Open and Collaborative Research: A New Model for Biomedicine, in Intellectual Property Rights In Frontier Industries, 131 Robert W. Hahn ed., AEI-Brookings Press (2005).

• Adapting the Open Source Concept to Other Digital Content: Creative Commons and Public Library of Science
  • Patrick O. Brown, Michael B. Eisen, Harold E. Varmus, Why PLoS Became a Publisher
  • Wikipedia
  • Wikipedia policies and guidelines
  • NPOV
  • The Wikipedia Community
  • The Wikipedia Power Structure
  • Wikipedia Foundation Issues

• Adapting the Open Source Concept to Other Content: Reports on Other Experiments

• Adapting the Open Source Concept to Principles of Democratic Governance
  • Charles Sabel, Work and Politics: The Division of Labor in Industry, Chapter 1.
  • Steven Weber, What if Open Source Principles of Governance Find Their Way into Communities of Knowledge and Practice in Politics?, OPEN SOURCES: VOICES FROM THE OPEN SOURCE REVOLUTION (2d Ed. Forthcoming 2005).

• Open Access Journals and Publications
  • Peter Suber, Open Access Overview
  • Charles W. Bailey, Jr., What is Open Access?
  • David J. Solomon, Strategies for Developing Sustainable Open Access Scholarly Journals, First Monday.
  • Jessica Litman, The Economics of Open-Access Law Publishing, Lewis &Clark L. Rev. (2006).
  • Lewis & Clark Symposium: Open Access Publishing And The Future Of Legal Scholarship (2006).
  • Charlotte Tschider, Investigating the “Public” in the Public Library of Science: Gifting Economics in the Internet Community, First Monday.

Critique of Benkler

• Strahilevitz, Lior, Wealth without Markets? Yale Law Journal, Vol. 116 (2007).

Critical Analysis of Wikis

Seth Finkelstein

• Do commercial pressures outweigh artistic ideals at Wikipedia?
  • Wikepediaart.org: An art critic site using the word 'Wikipedia' in their domain name was served a legal notice by Wikipedia
    • Corynne McSherry, Wikipedia Threatens Artists for Fair Use EFF Deeplinks (Apr. 23, 2009).

• Wikipedia isn't about human potential, whatever Wales says
  • Wikia drawing from Wikipedia's success
  • Wikia is absolutely for-profit
  • Wales (Wikipedia founder) using Wikipedia as a launch pad

• The moral quandary of involving Wikipedia in online 'censorship'
  • Wikipedia deleted information about the kidnapping of an NY Times journalist
  • Is it right to control "free media?"
  • Vague Wikipedia policy: "it hadn't appeared in a place we would regard as a reliable source"
  • Will the same thing be done for the "not-so-connected" people?

• Shutdown of Wikia Search proves empty rhetoric of collaboration
  • A flawed model: the content providers work for free, and the platform reaps the benefits
  • A public,open search engine is easier said than done
  • "Rhetoric about collaboration and community has proved no solution to real-world issues."

• When you have a Wikipedia, everything looks like an edit
  • Strong statement: "In general, we are poorly served by slogans such as the "wisdom of crowds", which often stand for nothing beyond finding a few popular selections by various types of polling"

• Inside, Wikipedia is more like a sweatshop than Santa's workshop
  • A lot of bureaucracy involved with the decision making committee
  • Many key contributors have been excluded or reprimanded due to content they have posted
  • Questions the integrity of the review board at Wikipedia

• Wikipedia's school for scandal has plenty more secrets to reveal
  • The organization is not as democratic as it seems

Others

• Aaron Swarz et al., Who Writes Wikipedia? (Sep. 2006).
• Julia Angwin and Geoffrey A. Fowler, Volunteers Log Off as Wikipedia Ages, Wall Street Journal (Nov. 27, 2009).
• Jennifer Thom-Santelli, Dan R. Cosley, and Geri Gay, What's Mine is Mine: territoriality in collaborative authoring, Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems (2009).
• Evgeny Morozov, Is it the end of Wikipedia? , Boston Review (Nov./Dec. 2009).
• John D. Sutter, Wikipedia: No longer the Wild West? CNN (Aug. 26, 2009).
• Andrea Seabrook, Jimmy Wales On Wikipedia's New Editing Policy NPR (Aug. 26, 2009).
• Shawn Pogatchnik, Irish student hoaxes world's media with fake quote Associated Press (May 12, 2009).
• Eric Goldman, Wikipedia Will Fail Within 5 Years Technology & Marketing Law Blog (Dec. 5, 2005).
• Academic Research on Wikipedia, Wikipedia.
• Bongwon Suh, Gregorio Convertino, Ed H. Chi, Peter Pirolli, The Singularity is Not Near: Slowing Growth of Wikipedia, Proc. of WikiSym 2009 (Oct. 2009).
• Mark Graham, Wikipedia's known unknowns, The Guardian (Dec. 2, 2009).

• Jaron Lanier, Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism, Edge (May 30, 2006).
  • Responses to Digital Maoism by Douglas Rushkoff, Quentin Hardy, Yochai Benkler, Clay Shirky, Cory Doctorow, Kevin Kelly, Esther Dyson, Larry Sanger, Fernanda Viegas & Martin Wattenberg, Jimmy Wales, George Dyson, Dan Gillmor, and Howard Rheingold.
• Jaron Lanier, Is a free market in ideas a good idea?, Philosopher's Zone, ABC National Radio (Jul. 8, 2006).
• Jaron Lanier, Beware the Online Collective, Edge (Dec. 25, 2006).

Potential Book Chapters or Excerpts

• Tapscott, Wikinomics, TOC, Intro and Chapter One.
• Yochai Benkler, Wealth of Networks.
• Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody (webliography).
• Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds, Excerpt.
• Lawrence Lessig,
  • Code and other Laws of Cyberspace, v2.
  • The Future of Ideas (full-text pdf).
  • Free Culture (full-text pdf).
• John Willinsky, The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship, TOC, full-text pdf with registration.
• Lih, The Wikipedia Revolution, TOC.
• Meeker, The Open Source Alternative, Google Books Preview.
• Wayner, Free for All.
• Chris DiBona, Mark Stone, Danese Cooper, Open Sources 2.0.
• Deek and McHugh, Open Source Technology and Policy, Google Books Preview.
• Bitzer and Schroder, Economics of Open Source Software Development, Google Books Preview.
• Wynants and Cornelis, How open is the future? (full-text pdf).
• Feller et al, Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software (full-text pdf).

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