Ethics and Law in New Media/Reading list

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NOTEː The course is INACTIVE since August 2014 - this page is left here for reference only.

Note: This is not obligatory material (it's huge anyway) but rather a complementary reading list to the course topics.

Books

• BARNES, Peter. Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2006 http://www.onthecommons.org
• BENKLER, Yochai. The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006 http://www.benkler.org/Benkler_Wealth_Of_Networks.pdf
• BERRY, David M. Copy, Rip, Burn: The Politics of Copyleft and Open Source. Pluto Press, 2008
• BOLDRIN, Michele, LEVINE, David K. Against Intellectual Property. 2007. http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstnew.htm

BOLLIER, David. Viral Spiral. http://www.viralspiral.cc/sites/default/files/ViralSpiral.pdf

• CASTELLS, Manuel, HIMANEN, Pekka. The Information Society and the Welfare State: The Finnish Model. Oxford University Press 2004.
• FELLER, Joseph (ed) et al. Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software. MIT Press 2005.
• GOLDMAN, Ron, GABRIEL, Richard. Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy. Morgan Kaufman Publishers 2006. http://dreamsongs.com/IHE/IHE.html
• GRAHAM, Paul. Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age. O'Reilly 2004. Available also at http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
• HIETANEN, Herkko, OKSANEN, Ville., VÄLIMÄKI, Mikko. Community Created Content: Law, Business and Policy. Turre Publishing 2007. http://turre.com/images/stories/books/webkirja_koko_optimoitu2.pdf
• HIMANEN, Pekka. The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age. Random House Inc. New York, 2001.
• von HIPPEL, Eric. The Sources of Innovation. Oxford University Press 1988. http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/sources.htm
• von HIPPEL, Eric. Democratizing Innovation. The MIT Press 2005. http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ1.htm
• KELTY, Christopher. Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software Duke University Press, 2008. http://twobits.net
• KOCH, Stefan. Free/Open Source Software Development. Idea Group, 2005
• LEVY, Steven. Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution. New York, NY: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 2001. Two first chapters are available at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/729
• LESSIG, Larry. Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. The Penguin Press 2004. http://www.free-culture.cc/freecontent/
• LESSIG, Larry. The Future of Ideas. Random House 2001. http://the-future-of-ideas.com
• LESSIG, Larry. Code v. 2.0. Basic Books, 2006. http://pdf.codev2.cc/Lessig-Codev2.pdf
• LOCKE, Christopher et al. The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual. Perseus Books Group 2001. http://cluetrain.com/book/index.html
• MARTIN, Brian. Information Liberation: Challenging the Corruptions of Information Power. Freedom Press, London 1999. http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/98il/
• MCLEOD, Kembrew. Freedom of Expression: Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativity. Doubleday/Random House 2005. http://kembrew.com/documents/mcleod-freedomofexpression3.pdf
• MOODY, Glyn. Rebel Code: Inside Linux and the Open Source Revolution. Perseus Publishing, Cambridge MA 2001
• STALLMAN, Richard Matthew. Free Software, Free Society. Ed. Joshua Gay. GNU Press 2002. http://www.gnu.org/doc/TOC-FSFS.html
• THEOBALD, Robert. The Rapids of Change: Social Entrepreneurship in Turbulent Times. Knowledge Systems Inc. 1987.
• TORVALDS, Linus, DIAMOND, David. Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary. First Edition, Harper-Collins 2001
• WILLIAMS, Sam. Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software. O'Reilly 2002. http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/
• WILLINSKY, John. The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship. MIT Press 2005. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/willinsky/TheAccessPrinciple_TheMITPress_0262232421.pdf
• WYNANTS, Marleen, CORNELIS, Jan. How Open is the Future? Economic, Social and Cultural Scenarios inspired by Free & Open-Source Software. CrossTalks, VUB Brussels University Press 2005. http://crosstalks.vub.ac.be/publications/Howopenisthefuture/howopenfuture_CROSSTALKSBOOK1.pdf
• Bruce Perens Open Source Series
• O'Reilly Open Books

Articles, papers and reports

• BENKLER, Yochai. Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm. http://www.benkler.org/CoasesPenguin.html
• BERNERS-LEE, Timothy. Net Neutrality: This is serious. http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/144
• HIMANEN, Pekka. Challenges of the Global Information Society. report for the Committee for the Future in Parliament of Finland 2004. http://www.eduskunta.fi/efakta/vk/tuv/challenges_of_the_globalinformationsociety.pdf
• LEONARD, Andrew. Free Software Project. http://dir.salon.com/topics/free_software_project/
• MOGLEN, Eben. Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright. First Monday, Vol. 4, Issue 8, 1999. http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_8/moglen/index.html
• NEWMAN, Nathan. The Origins and Future of Open Source Software. A NetAction Whitepaper. http://www.netaction.org/opensrc/future/
• POYNDER, Richard. The Basement Interviews. http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/03/basement-interviews.html
• RAYMOND, Eric Steven. The Cathedral and the Bazaar. http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
• RAYMOND, Eric Steven. How to become a Hacker. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
• RISAN, Lars. Hackers produce more than software, they produce hackers. http://folk.uio.no/lrisan/Linux/Identity_games/
• SALUS, Peter. The Daemon, the Gnu, and the Penguin. A History of Free and Open Source Software. http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=20051013231901859
• SDForum. The Future of Commercial Open Source. Think Tank Summary Report 2006. http://lwn.net/images/pdf/OpenSourceThinkTank2006_FinalReport.pdf

Movies

• Revolution OS. Wonderview Productions 2001 http://www.revolution-os.com/ (the movie is not freely available though)
• Steal This Film. League of Noble Peers 2006/2007. http://www.stealthisfilm.com (both parts are available as torrents)
• Good Copy, Bad Copy. Rosforth 2007. http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/ (available as torrent)

Websites

• Budapest Open Access Initiative. http://www.soros.org/openaccess/index.shtml
• Creative Commons. http://www.creativecommons.org
• Directory of Open Access Journals. http://www.doaj.org
• Electronic Frontier Foundation. http://www.eff.org
• Foundation for Free Internet Infrastructure. http://www.ffii.org
• Free Art License. http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en/
• Free Culture. http://www.freeculture.org
• Free Software Foundation. http://www.fsf.org
• Jargon File. http://www.catb.org/jargon/
• MIT OpenCourseWare. http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
• Open Source Initiative. http://www.opensource.org
• Science Commons. http://science.creativecommons.org

RSS feeds

(for convenience - some will double the websites)

• Internet Evolution: http://www.internetevolution.com/rss_simple.asp
• Digital Life by Chin Wong: http://www.chinwong.com/index.php/site/rss_2.0
• Cory Doctorow's Craphound.com: http://craphound.com/?feed=rss2
• Michael Geist: http://feeds.feedburner.com/MichaelGeistsBlog
• Jonathan Zittrain: http://futureoftheinternet.org/feed
• Glyn Moody: http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/atom.xml
• Open Culture: http://feeds.feedburner.com/OpenCulture
• Schneier on Security: http://www.schneier.com/blog/index.xml
• Krebs on Security: http://www.krebsonsecurity.com/feed/?src=greetbox
• Groklaw: http://www.groklaw.net/backend/GrokLaw.rdf

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