Culture, Arts and Information

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...

18 Nov 2009 / David Bollier

Global Innovation Commons: A new database of patent-free technologies will make “green innovation" more available to all. Read more...

13 Nov 2009 / David Bollier

Barcelona Charter for Free Culture is Released: Historic statement by commoners takes the offensive against regressive Internet policies Read more...

6 Nov 2009 / David Bollier

Free Culture Gets Political: Digital commoners of diverse stripes get serious about public policy. Read more...

21 Oct 2009 / David Bollier

Celebrating the Academic Commons: Open Access Week educates faculty and students about free access and sharing of research.
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20 Oct 2009 / David Bollier

Call Off the Wolves, Jack! : British outdoors clothing maker tries to privatize paw prints. Read more...

6 Oct 2009 / David Bollier

The Politics of Copyright Law Explained.: William Patry's "Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars" Read more...

17 Sep 2009 / David Bollier

Who Owns the Prefix “Mc”?: McDonald's suffers a major court defeat in Malaysia as McCurry prevails. Read more...

20 Aug 2009 / David Bollier

RECAP & Public.Resource.org Liberate Court Records: New Firefox plug-in makes federal court documents freely available -- and shames the judiciary... Read more...

1 May 2009 / David Bollier

Who Should Own Antiquities?: The clash of justifications for property rights in ancient works of art. Read more...

24 Apr 2009 / David Bollier

No Time to Think: Digital media are overwhelming our consciousness and eclipsing our capacity for reflection. Read more...

8 Apr 2009 / David Bollier

Google's Trojan Horse: Expanding access to digitized books while building an unprecedented monopoly. Read more...

7 Apr 2009 / David Bollier

Unleashing Public Sector Information: The knotty challenges of putting our civic and cultural patrimony online.

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25 Mar 2009 / David Bollier

Crowd-sourcing the Patent Review Process: A pilot project hints at the larger potential of wiki-government. Read more...

19 Mar 2009

Viral Spiral: The Videos: The digital republic and its implications for journalism, business and educatiion. Read more...

12 Mar 2009 / David Bollier

Et tu, Obama? Open Government Suffers Another Blow: Secret intellectual property treaty could profoundly change life on the Internet Read more...

2 Mar 2009 / David Bollier

The Facebook Rebellion of 2009: The commoners successfully defend their ownership rights, privacy and social norms. Read more...

25 Feb 2009 / David Bollier

Malamud for Public Printer: The Government Printing Office Needs a Champion of Openness Read more...

17 Feb 2009 / David Bollier

James Love Proposes an Ingenious Hack on the World Trade Organization: Computer programmer Richard Stallman invented a famous “hack” around copyright law when he... Read more...

16 Feb 2009 / David Bollier

Freesouls: Captured and Released: Joi Ito’s book liberates the images of free culture advocates. Read more...

11 Feb 2009 / David Bollier

Kudos to Wikileaks for Prying the Information Loose!: Web collective makes public thousands of Congressional Research Service reports. Read more...

23 Jan 2009 / David Bollier

LittleSis and Spot.us: Two fascinating experiments in open-source citizenship and journalism Read more...

19 Jan 2009 / David Bollier

Leveraging People to Circulate News: Al Jazeera releases news video under Creative Commons licenses. Read more...

13 Jan 2009 / David Bollier

Che Guevara, the Trademark: His long, strange journey from idealistic revolutionary to capitalist brand. Read more...

12 Jan 2009 / David Bollier

The Household as Commons: Why do co-occupants favor gift-exchange over contracts, and consensus over majority rule? Read more...

30 Dec 2008 / David Bollier

Decadence and Redemption in the Music Biz: Let’s revive music by letting robust social commons support new types of markets. Read more...

14 Dec 2008 /

The Rich Are Hogging Our Common Inheritance : And how we can take it back. Read more...

8 Dec 2008

History Commons: An open-content, citizen-driven site to create an efficient, well-researched body of historical... Read more...

1 Dec 2008 / David Bollier

Who Owns the Image of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?: The King estate’s unseemly attempt to cash in on “The Dream."
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26 Nov 2008 / Rachel Breen

Towards a Collective Understanding of Art As a Commons: A report on current thinking about the art commons

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26 Nov 2008 / David Bollier

From Whence Does Creativity Emerge? : Lewis Hyde explores the nether zone between identity and community. Read more...

28 Oct 2008 / David Bollier

The Public Domain as a “Jungle”: Eva Wirtén’s new book, "Terms of Use," explores the clashing worldviews of North and South Read more...

21 Oct 2008 / David Bollier

The Lazy Smear of “Piracy”: The history of piracy reveals the real issue: freedom versus slavery. Read more...

13 Oct 2008

Boy Scouts Claim to Own the Word “Scout”: In 2002, attorney Greg Wrenn started a youth group call “Youthscouts” because he wanted his... Read more...

9 Oct 2008

Free Culture Convergence: Creative, free-thinking students are convening in Berkeley to advance a movement. Deja vu?

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6 Oct 2008 / Sameer Padania

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26 Sep 2008 / Chuck Collins

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26 Sep 2008 / David Bollier

Video Game Pits Commoners vs. Enclosure: Molleindustria introduces “The Free Culture Game” Read more...

17 Sep 2008 / Jan Hively

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17 Sep 2008 / David Bollier

Publishers Take Aim at Open Access: Conyers, Berman join publishing industry in trying to lock up taxpayer-funded medical research
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12 Sep 2008 / Jay Walljasper

An Artist Whose Masterpiece Is a Neighborhood Transformed: Inner city communities face obstacles that often feel insurmountable: crime, poverty, pollution,... Read more...

11 Sep 2008

Can the Law be Copyrighted? : Carl Malamud liberates 33,000 pages of California regulations for public use. Read more...

3 Sep 2008 / Karen Fasimpaur

New Open Dictionary For Kids: Textbook publishers move over--the children are writing their own dictionary for the public domain. Read more...

30 Aug 2008 / Daniel Erlacher

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25 Aug 2008 / David Bollier

Fair Use Gets Its Groove Back: A cause for celebration: the “dancing baby” case may proceed! Read more...

25 Aug 2008 / David Bollier

Who Owns “The Last Best Place”?: Montana beats back the privatization of a beloved phrase. Read more...

22 Aug 2008

Appeals Court Upholds Free Public Licenses. : In an important victory for online sharing and reuse of works, a federal appeals court has upheld... Read more...

21 Aug 2008 / David Bollier

When Rogue Robots Fall in Love: WALL•E and Eve's Nightmare in Modern Consumer Culture Read more...

10 Aug 2008 / David Bollier

Is Fair Use Regaining Its Mojo?: “Girl Talk” Courageously Samples Music Without Asking Permission Read more...

2 Aug 2008 / David Bollier

Free Culture Commoners Converge on Sapporo: A look at a few of the homegrown visionaries building the sharing economy. Read more...

1 Aug 2008 / Scott McGibbon

Congressional Entertainment Caucus: Los Angeles Hearing : Read more...

1 Aug 2008 / Scott McGibbon

The Politics of Media, Technology & Culture : Read more...

1 Aug 2008 / Scott McGibbon

Lessig vs. Valenti -- A Debate on Creativity, Commerce & Culture: Read more...

22 Jul 2008 / David Bollier

The Tragedy of the Anticommons: Professor Michael Heller explains how fragmented property rights can lead to underuse and a... Read more...

17 Jul 2008 / David Bollier

Product Placement Runs Amok: Programming is becoming one big, undisclosed commercial, prompting new calls for limits and... Read more...

16 Jul 2008 / Natalie Pang

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15 Jul 2008

Defending Public-Sector Science: A backlash against the over-commercialization of science seems to be gaining new momentum. Two... Read more...

14 Jul 2008 / Lina Srivastava

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6 Jul 2008 / Josh Kun

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1 Jul 2008 / Jethro Heiko

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1 Jul 2008 / David Bollier

Anonymous Crusader Takes On Pop-Up Ad Industry: Rick752 is a machinist in his fifties in upstate New York who hates the blizzard of advertisements... Read more...

27 Jun 2008 / David Bollier

Tapping into the Power to Share: Health Commons aspires to build a new ecosystem for research Read more...

24 Jun 2008 / David Bollier

Using Sousveillance to Defend the Commons: Technology is letting citizens “watch from below” and so make power more accountable Read more...

20 Jun 2008 / David Bollier

Generic Drugs, an Endangered Commons: Big drug companies are using their clout to stifle and delay generic competition. We pay billions... Read more...

19 Jun 2008

iCommons Summit to Convene Free Culture Movement: Huge international gathering will bring digital artists, educators, entrepreneurs and... Read more...

18 Jun 2008 / David Bollier

Associated Press Tramples on Fair Use Rights: Wanna quote five words? It will cost you $12.50. Read more...

16 Jun 2008 / Liz Seymour

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16 Jun 2008 / David Bollier

Why Baseball Faces a Permanent Decline: If Major League Baseball (MLB) wants to know why fans are fleeing for other sports and baseball is... Read more...

11 Jun 2008 / David Bollier

Citizen-archivist uses tech savvy to liberate government information: If you browse the press clips that tech-activist Carl Malamud has accumulated over the past... Read more...

11 Jun 2008 / Rachel Breen

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11 Jun 2008 / David Bollier

Sidewalks as a Democratic Commons: In a recent interview with Enrique Peñalosa -- the former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, and... Read more...

5 Jun 2008

“Sparky Awards” To Showcase Videos on Information Sharing: Library and student groups invite submissions. Read more...

4 Jun 2008 / Dave Sohigian

Economic Relocalization: Thoughts on the inevitable power of corporations and other powers that could hold them in check. Read more...

21 May 2008 / Brad Weikel

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19 May 2008 / Dave Sohigian

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19 May 2008 / David Bollier

Gene Giants Exploit Climate Change : Corporations plan "climate ready” crops that will subvert farmer independence, crop diversity... Read more...

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9 May 2008 / Alexa Bradley

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9 May 2008 / Chris Desser

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9 May 2008 / Chris Desser

Art and the Commons: Art can help us reclaim a wholeness of mind and emotion, breaking down the boundaries of culture... Read more...

8 May 2008 / David Bollier

Hail to the Flickr Commons!: The Library of Congress Joins Flickr to Create a New Photo Archive Read more...

8 May 2008 / David Bollier

A Plan to Rescue Orphan Works: Urge Your Member of Congress to Support New Legislation

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4 May 2008 / Mike Aaron

NCDD 2008 Conference, Austin, TX; Oct 3-5: If we are to survive our environmental dangers, our border disputes, our resource shortages, et... Read more...

28 Apr 2008 / David Bollier

"The Gift" Turns 25: Lewis Hyde’s modern classic about creativity and the gift economy is re-released. Read more...

26 Apr 2008 / Richard Lowenberg

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24 Apr 2008 / Jay Walljasper

Fans Grateful to the Dead for Keeping Archives Accessible: The Grateful Dead donated a collection of memorabilia worth millions to the University of... Read more...

22 Apr 2008 / David Bollier

Museums Exploiting Public-Domain Artworks: The world’s museums are stewards of millions of images that constitute our cultural patrimony. ... Read more...

22 Apr 2008 / David Bollier

The Commons as a New Sector of Value-Creation: It’s time to recognize and protect the distinctive wealth generated by online commons. Read more...

22 Apr 2008 / David Bollier

The Economics of Online Commons: When Information Is Free, What’s the Business Plan? Read more...

21 Apr 2008 / Bern Marszalek

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18 Apr 2008 / Brad Lichtenstein

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14 Apr 2008 / Mark Harris

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10 Apr 2008 / Kit Robinson

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8 Apr 2008 / David Bollier

“Who Owns the Commons?” Symposium: Writers to explore issues posed by the commons Read more...