[edit] 27 February 2008: Open Source and Software Industry

• Ronald Mann, The Commercialization of Open Source Software: Do Property Rights Still Matter?, 20 Harv. J. L. & Tech., available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=802805
• IBM Corp., Open Source and Linux, available at http://www-1.ibm.com/linux/industry/opensource.shtml
• Pamela Samuelson, IBM’s Pragmatic Embrace of Open Source, 49 Comm. ACM, available at http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~pam/papers/CACM%20IBM%20open%20source.pdf
• Eben Moglen, Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright, in THE COMMODIFICATION OF INFORMATION 107 (Niva Elkin-Koren & Neil Weinstock Netanel, eds. 2002), available at: http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/anarchism.html

[edit] 5 March 2008: Open Source and Software Industry (cont.)

• Sean Silverthorne, Microsoft v. Open Source: Who Will Win?, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, available at http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4834&t=technology
• Open Source Software: Microsoft at the Power Point, The Economist, Sept. 11, 2003, available at http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2054746 Need to get full document link.
• Tim O'Reilly, Open Source Paradigm Shift, available at: http://tim.oreilly.com/articles/paradigmshift_0504.html
• Ray Ozzie, The Internet Services Disruption, Oct. 28, 2005, available at http://www.scripting.com/disruption/ozzie/TheInternetServicesDisruptio.htm

[edit] 12 March 2008: Government Policy Toward Open Source

• Committee for Economic Development, Open Standards, Open Source, and Open Innovation: Harnessing the Benefits of Openness (April 2006), available at [6]

[edit] 26 March 2008: Open Access Journals and Publications

• Peter Suber, Open Access Overview, available at [7]
• Charles W. Bailey, Jr., What is Open Access?, available at [8]
• David J. Solomon, Strategies for Developing Sustainable Open Access Scholarly Journals, First Monday, available at [9]
• Jessica Litman, The Economics of Open-Access Law Publishing, Lewis & Clark L. Rev, available at [10]

• Patrick O. Brown, Michael B. Eisen, Harold E. Varmus, Why PLoS Became a Publisher, available at [11]
• Charlotte Tschider, Investigating the “Public” in the Public Library of Science: Gifting Economics in the Internet Community, First Monday, available at [12]
• The Open Library. The Stanford Open Source Lab presents Aaron Swartz talking about The Open Library. This event took place on November 29th 2007 at Stanford University.

[edit] 2 April 2008: Open Source Biology

• David Opderbeck, The Penguin’s Genome, or Coase and Open Source Biotechnology, 18 Harv. J. L. & Tech. 167 (2004), available at [13]
• Stephen M. Maurer, Arti Rai, & Andrej Sali, Finding Cures for Tropical Diseases: Is Open Source the Answer?, 1 PLoS Medicine 180 (Dec. 2004), available at [14]

• 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), available at: [15]

[edit] 9 April 2008: Wikipedia

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_Pillars
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines
• How and Why Wikipedia Works: An Interview with Angela Beesley, Elizabeth Bower, and Kizu Naoko, available at http://www.riehle.org/computer-science/research/2006/wikisym-2006-interview.html
• Denise Anthony, Sean Smith, & Tim Williamson, Explaining Quality in Internet Collective Goods: Zealots and Good Samaritans in the Case of Wikipedia (Nov. 2005), available at http://web.mit.edu/iandeseminar/Papers/Fall2005/anthony.pdf.
• Jaron Lanier, Digital Maoism: Hazards of the Collective Mind, The Edge, 5/30/06, available at http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge183.html
• Selected responses to Lanier’s article (Quentin Hardy, Yochai Benkler, Clay Shirky, Larry Sanger, Viegas and Wattenberg, & Jimmy Wales), available at http://www.edge.org/discourse/digital_maoism.html

• Wikiversity, Wikipedia, and Participatory Learning, December 19, 2007. The speakers were Sue Gardner and Erik Moeller of the Wikimedia Foundation. The video was released under a Creative Commons attribution license.

[edit] 16 April 2008: Social Production of Music and Other Digital Content

• Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks (2006), Chap. 1, available at [16]
• Creative Commons Licenses, [17]
• CC Mixter, [18]
• 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), available at [19]
• Zachary Katz, Pitfalls of Open Licensing: An Analysis of Creative Commons Licensing, 46 IDEA 391

[edit] 23 April 2008: User-Created Value and Virtual Economies

• Mia Garlick, Creative Commons presentation in Second Life, April 24, 2006. "Age of the Conducer," transcript available at [20]
• Second Life Terms of Service, available at [21]
• Cory Ondrejka, Escaping the Gilded Cage: User Created Content and Building the Metaverse, 49 N.Y.L.S. L. Rev. 81 (2004), available at [22]
• Dan Hunter & F. Gregory Lastowka, The Laws of the Virtual Worlds, 92 Cal. L. Rev. 1 (2004), available at [23]

• Clickable Culture (focus on articles on Second Life), [24]

[edit] 30 April 2008: Student Presentations

[edit] Assignments

• Class participation, and mini assignments
• Mini Assignment 1
• Assignment 1
• Assignment 2
• Project

[edit] Software

• Distrowatch All the linux distributions you ever want
• NoMachine Desktop virtualization and client
• Knoppix: Linux based security distribution

[edit] Additional Reading

• Revolution_OS is a 2001 documentary which traces the history of GNU, Linux, and the open source and free software movements.
• Interview Why GPL may need to be extended to Software as a Service.
• FossologyHP released a tool that would quickly and accurately describe how a given open source project was licensed, Over time HP will develop additional Agents that can be used to perform all sorts of useful analysis on software of all kinds.
• Some numerical data on the size of some OS projects [25]

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