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Theme 3 - The public domain and open access models of information creation: at odds with the intellectual property system or enabled by it?
Resources
- WIPO "Patents" website
- WIPO Directory of online access to patent information
- WIPO Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
- WIPO PCT Frequently Asked Questions
- WIPO Industrial Property Statistics
- WIPO Patents for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
- WIPO Case Studies on Licensing Intellectual Property
- WIPO Article, prepared by Christopher Kalanje "Leveraging Intellectual Property: Beyond the Right to Exclude"
- WIPO and International Trade Centre "Exchanging Value - Negotiating Technology Licensing Agreements: A Training Manual" (SME-GUIDE/37880)
- WIPO Guide to the Copyright and Related Rights Treaties Administered by WIPO, prepared by Mihàly Ficsor (WIPO Document No.89, 2003)
- Ulf Jansson, "Patent Documents as a Source of Technical Information" (WIPO/IP/EP/OO/9) (Adobe PDF)
- European Patent Office - Online European Patent Register Information
- United States Patent and Trademark Office - Search Patent Information
- Licensing Executives Society International (LESI) - Frequently Asked Questions
- Weston Anson, LESI Intellectual Property Valuation Primer "Everyday Business Issues and Questions on Value and Valuation"
- Yochai Benkler "Sharing Nicely: On shareable goods and the emergence of sharing as a modality of economic production"
- Lawrence Lessig, "Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity"
- J. Frow, "Public Domain and Collective Rights in Culture" [1998] 13 IPJ 39.
- E. Ostrom, "Governing the Commons" (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, (1990)
- E. Frankel Paul, F. Miller, and J. Paul (Eds.), "Scientific Innovation, Philosophy, and Public Policy" (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996)
- Biological Innovation for Open Society
- The Online Books Page - Frequently Asked Questions on national copyright terms
- Public Domain Music
- BBC Creative Archive
- Creative Commons
- Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication
- Wikipedia "Public Domain"
- Union for the Public Domain
- Project Gutenberg - producer of free e-books
- Creative Commons - Legal Concepts (The Public Domain, The Commons, Open Content etc.)
- Creative Commons White Paper "Cultivating the Public Domain"
- Project Gutenberg (Internet-based producer of free e-books)
- Center for the Public Domain
- University of Houston Libraries list of free Scholarly Journals Distributed Via the World Wide Web
- GNU Free Documentation License
- The GNU Operating System
- Free Software Foundation
- Links to resources on legality of the General Public License (GPL)
- Open Source Initiative
- David Wheeler, "Why Open Source Software/Free Software (OSS/FS, FLOSS, or FOSS)? Look at the Numbers!" Revised May 9, 2005
- J.T. Westermeier & Katherine C. Spelman, "Open Source Software" (2004) Piper Rudnick, LLP
- Lawrence Lessig, "Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity" (Penguin Press, New York, 2004)
- Bibek Debroy & Julian Morris, "Open to Development: Open-Source Software and Economic Development" (2004) ( Adobe PDF)
- Joshua Lerner, "The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open Source and Beyond" Social Science Research Network (November 2004)
- Joshua Lerner & John Tirole, "The Scope of Open Source Licensing", Social Science Research Network (November 2002)
- David Evans & Anne Layne-Farrar, "Software Patents and Open Source: The Battle Over Intellectual Property Rights" Virginia Journal of Law and Technology, Vol 9(10) Summer 2004 (Adobe PDF)
- Microsoft Shared Source Initiative: Commercial Software
- Jason Matusow, "A Commercial Perspective: Microsoft Shared Source" (March 2005)
- Carolyn Kenwood, "A Business Case Study of Open Source Software" Mitre Corporation (July 2001)
- United Nations Commission for Trade and Development (UNCTAD) - International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) Project on Intellectual Property Rights and Sustainable Development (May 2004)
