Graham Greenleaf (with assistance from Catherine Bond) – Revised 14 May 2008
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'Commons in IP' - Topic Outline and Reading Guide
University of New South Wales Faculty of Law, Session 1 2008
LAWS5239 Commons & Public Rights in Intellectual Property

Graham Greenleaf (with assistance from Catherine Bond) – Revised 9 April 2008

2 days 11-12 May, 9am – 6pm (approx); Each day 4 sessions x 1 hr 45 mins
The course member leading each topic / sub-topic is indicated by their surname in parentheses at the start of the topic, or after each sub-topic.
1 Analysing public rights (1) – Theories of commons
2 Analysing public rights (2) – Elements of commons and their limits
3 Voluntary licensing creating public rights (1) Software & standards
4 Critiques of commons theories
5 Voluntary licensing creating public rights (2) Open content
6 Business models based on commons content
7 Accessibility of commons - Finding works with public rights
8 Incentives and requirements to expand public rights
Required readings are marked with an asterisk (*). Extracts from these materials will be in the Course reading materials, but where possible the whole of the item should be read.
Other publications listed are recommended readings.

General references

Lucie Guibault and P. Bernt Hugenholtz (Editors) The Future of the Public Domain: Identifying the Commons in Information Law, Kluwer Law International, 2006
Brian Fitzgerald (with Jessica Coates and Suzanne Lewis) (Editors) Open Content Licensing: Cultivating the Creative Commons, Sydney University Press, 2007
Charlotte Waelde and Hector MacQueen (Editors) Intellectual Property: The Many Faces of the Public Domain Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2007
James Boyle, Editor Special Issue: “The Public Domain” Law and Contemporary Problems Winter/Spring 2003 http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/lcp/archive.html