Legislation to expand public rights
Incentives to expand commons
Legal Scholarship repositories – case study
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8 Incentives and requirements to expand public rights

Legislation to expand public rights

Public Domain Enhancement Act (US), HR 2408 IH, introduced to the US House of Representatives on 17 May 2005; a Bill to amend Title 17, United States Code, “to allow abandoned copyrighted works to enter the public domain after 50 years”
Public Domain Enhancement Act Frequently Asked Questions
Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity; Particularly Chapter 14 – Eldred II
Freedom and Innovation Revitalising U.S. Entrepreneurship (“FAIR USE”) Act (US), a Bill to amend Title 17, United States Code, “to promote innovation, to encourage the introduction of new technology, to enhance library preservation efforts, and to protect the fair use rights of consumers, and for other purposes.”
Catherine Bond, “Fairest of Them All?”, The House of Commons, 12 March 2007

Incentives to expand commons

Fitzgerald et al OAK Law Project Report No 1 Ch 5 ‘Creating a framework for open access to academic and research materials’, Report to DEST, 2006 (PDF)

Legal Scholarship repositories – case study

UNSW Law Research Series (UNSWLRS) comparative repository experiment: