1 Analysing public rights (1) – Theories of commons

* Yochai Benkler, “The Political Economy of Commons” Upgrade, Volume IV No. 3 June 2003

* James Boyle, “The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain” (2003) 66 Law and Contemporary Problems 33

* Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom, “Ideas, Artifacts and Facilities: Information as a Common-Pool Resource” (2003) 66 Law and Contemporary Problems 111

* Lawrence Lessig, “The Architecture of Innovation” (2002) 51 Duke Law Journal 1783

* Peter Drahos, “Freedom and Diversity – In Defence of the Intellectual Commons” [2006] AIPLRes 1

*Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, (Particularly Chapter 1 – Creators)

Lawrence Lessig, “Code and the Commons”

Keith Aoki, James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins, “Tales from the Public Domain: Bound by Law?”

David M. Berry, “The Commons as an Idea: Ideas as a Commons” (2005) 1 Free Software Magazine 1

Special Issue: “The Public Domain” Law and Contemporary Problems Winter/Spring 2003 (James Boyle, Special Editor)

Eli M. Salzberger, “Economic Analysis of the Public Domain”, Ch III in L. Guibault and P. Bernt Hugenholtz The Future of the Public Domain: Identifying the Commons in Information Law, Kluwer Law International 2006

Michael D. Birnhack, “More or Better? Shaping the Public Domain”, Ch IV in L. Guibault and P. Bernt Hugenholtz The Future of the Public Domain: Identifying the Commons in Information Law, Kluwer Law International 2006

Julie Cohen, “Copyright, Commodification and Culture: Locating the Public Domain”, Ch VII in L. Guibault and P. Bernt Hugenholtz The Future of the Public Domain: Identifying the Commons in Information Law, Kluwer Law International 2006

National and international commons

*Graham Greenleaf, David Vaile, Philip Chung, “Unlocking IP: National Dimensions of Public Rights and the Public Domain in Australia” Canada-Australia Comparative IP & Cyberlaw Conference, University of Ottawa, 2005, 11 pgs

Pamela Samuelson, “Challenges in Mapping the Public Domain”, Ch II in L. Guibault and P. Bernt Hugenholtz The Future of the Public Domain: Identifying the Commons in Information Law, Kluwer Law International 2006 – similar version is “Enriching Discourse on Public Domains” (2006) 55 Duke Law Journal 783

Graham Greenleaf, "Commons-ism in One Country? National and International Dimensions of Copyright’s Public Domain”