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Theme 2:  The intellectual property system and freedom of expression and creativity: Help or hindrance?

 Resources

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• WIPO Guide on Surveying the Economic Contribution of the Copyright-Based Industries (WIPO Publication No. 893) (Adobe PDF)
• WIPO Consolidated Analysis of the Legal Protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions/ Expressions of Folklore (Adobe PDF)
• WIPO Booklet on Intellectual Property and Traditional Knowledge (See Adobe PDF).
• WIPO Booklet on Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions/ Folklore (See Adobe PDF)
• WIPO Booklet on Intellectual Property and Traditional Knowledge (See Adobe PDF)
• WIPO Booklet on Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions/ Folklore (See Adobe PDF)
• Malcolm Gladwell, "Something Borrowed: Should a charge of plagiarism ruin your life?" The New Yorker, Issue 2004-11-22.
• Creative Commons (About Legal Concepts - the public domain, the commons, open content, and intellectual property conservancies)
• Yochai Benkler "Sharing Nicely: On shareable goods and the emergence of sharing as a modality of economic production"
• Jessica Litman, "Digital Copyright" (Prometheus Books, New York, 2001)
• Mihály Ficsor, "The Law of Copyright and the Internet: The 1996 Treaties, their Interpretation and Implementation" (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002)
• Ove Grandstrand (ed.), "Economics, Law and Intellectual Property" (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Amsterdam, 2003)
• Adam Thierer & Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., "Copy Fights: The Future of Intellectual Property in the Information Age" (Cato Institute, Washington, 2002)
• Lawrence Lessig, "The Future of Ideas. The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World" (Vintage, New York, 2002)
• Michael Foucault "What is an author?", Harari ed. "Textual Strategies" (1979), at p.141.
• OntheCommons.org (See onthecommons.org)
• Alvin Toffler, "The Third Wave" (Random House Value Publishing, 1987).
• Terri Janke "Minding Culture - Case Studies on Intellectual Property and Traditional Expressions" prepared for WIPO 
• J. Michael Finger & Philip Schuler (eds) "Poor People's Knowledge: Promoting Intellectual Property in Developing Countries" (World Bank and Oxford University Press, Washington, 2004)
• Thomas Homer-Dixon, "The Ingenuity Gap: How Can We Solve the Problems of the Future" (Vintage, 2001)