Statutory Public Rights – Compulsory Licences
Statutory Public Rights – Fair Use
Limits of Copyright – Term Expiry and Term Extension
Patents and Their Effects on Commons
Technological Protection Measures and Their Effects on Commons
De facto commons
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Statutory Public Rights – Compulsory Licences

*Lawrence Lessig, “Free Culture” – compulsory licences
Creative Commons Australia submission to ACCC on restrictive practices by collecting societies, and second submission (2006)

Statutory Public Rights – Fair Use

* Melissa de Zwart The Future Of Fair Dealing In Australia: Protecting Freedom Of Communication Special Issue: Creating Commons SCRIPT-ed, (1) 2007, pp.95-116
* Frank Pasquale, “Towards an Ecology of Intellectual Property: Lessons from Environmental Economics for Valuing Copyright’s Commons” (2006) 8Yale Journal of Law and Technology 78


Limits of Copyright – Term Expiry and Term Extension

*Matthew Rimmer, “The Dead Poet’s Society: The Copyright Term and the Public Domain” (2003) 8(6) First Monday
*Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture, (Particularly Chapter 13 – Eldred)
Allens Consulting Group, “Copyright Term Extension: Australian Benefits and Costs” (recommended)
Eldred v Ashcroft 123 S. Ct. 769 (January 15, 2003)

Patents and Their Effects on Commons

*Yochai Benkler, “Commons-Based Strategies and the Problems of Patents” (2004) Science
Dianne Nicol Cooperative Intellectual Property in Biotechnology Special Issue: Creating Commons SCRIPT-ed, (1) 2007 pp.136-151
Graeme B. Dinwoodie and Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss, “Patenting Science: Protecting the Domain of Accessible Knowledge” in P.B. Hugenholtz and L. Guibauilt, The Future of the Public Domain: Identifying the Commons in Information Law (2006)

Technological Protection Measures and Their Effects on Commons

*Kamiel J. Koelman, “The Public Domain Commodified: Technological Measures and Productive Information Use” in P.B. Hugenholtz and L. Guibauilt, The Future of the Public Domain: Identifying the Commons in Information Law (2006)

Jordan Hatcher, “Can TPMs Create A Commons? Looking at Whether and How TPMs and Creative Commons Licences Can Work Together” (2005)

De facto commons

Graham Greenleaf Creating commons by friendly appropriation Special Issue: Creating Commons SCRIPT-ed, (1) 2007, pp.117-135