Commons Strategies
Community Life
Culture, Arts and Information
Economy and Markets
Environment
Food and Agriculture
International
Media and Internet
Politics and Government
Science and Health
Water
Culture, Arts and Information
showcase topics
- Berkman Center for Internet and Society
- Center for Social Media, American University
- Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Duke Law School
- Connexions
- Creative Commons
- Fair Use Project, Stanford Law School
- Open Access News (Peter Suber)
- OER Commons Open Educational Resources movement
- OpenCourseWare Consortium
- Public Knowledge
- Students for Free Culture
- The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship, by John Willinsky (MIT Press, 2006)
- Copyrights and Copywrongs by Siva Vaidhyanathan (NYU Press, 2001)
- Digital Copyright by Jessica Litman (Prometheus Press, 2001)
- Duke Conference on the Public Domain (2001): Collected Papers
- Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars by William Patry (Oxford University Press, 2009)
- The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle (Yale University Press, 2009)
- Remix by Lawrence Lessig (Penguin, 2008)
- Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: Theory and Practice by Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom
- Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own by David Bollier (New Press, 2009)
- Who Owns Academic Work? Battling for Control of Intellectual Property by Corynne McSherry (Harvard University Press, 2001)
- Who Owns Native Culture? by Michael F. Brown (Harvard University Press, 2003)
Culture, Arts and Information

4 Feb 2010 / David Bollier
The Public Domain Manifesto
New statement declares the public domain the rule and copyright the exception. read more

1 Feb 2010 / David Bollier
The Ginseng Commons of West Virginia
Folklife and landscape in southern West Virginia read more
28 Jan 2010 / David Bollier
New Frontiers of Commons-based Innovation: Stylish video satires, new collaborative systems for volunteering. Read more...
20 Jan 2010 / David Bollier
DIY Book Scanning Takes Off: The rise of a global commons devoted to the cheap scanning of books for personal use. Read more...
15 Jan 2010 / David Bollier
Artists vs. Copyright Law: World Fair Use Day explains why artists need the right to remix and mash up culture. Read more...
5 Jan 2010 / Jay Walljasper
Commons Books of the Year: Shareable.net picks the 15 best of 2009 Read more...
7 Dec 2009 / Jay Walljasper
The Eternal Joy of Hanging Out: Roman piazzas are commons at their best. And there's no reason we can't have them here Read more...
1 Dec 2009 / David Bollier
Hard-Wired to Cooperate: Humans are naturally inclined to cooperate and create social norms, the foundation for building... Read more...
30 Nov 2009 / David Bollier
Stealth Treaty Seeks Strict Controls Over Internet: Never heard of ACTA? That’s exactly what Hollywood and other copyright industries want. Read more...
