IP Minimalism

Open access, copyright minimalism, free software, open knowledge, libre, common content, etc.

See also the IP Minimalist Community

Only Libre Resources

Works

• Open Source Licensing ● ' Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law'
• Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning ● '[D]escribes the [OER] movement in detail, providing readers with insight into OER’s significant benefits, its theory and practice, and its achievements and challenges.'
• Producing Open Source Software ● "How to Run a Successful Free Software Project"
• Right To Music ● A free, fair, independent music advocacy group.
• Right2Remix ● Advocating for legal remixing.
• Sharing is Liberty ● A blog about copyright reform.
• Smartcopying ● 'The Official Guide to Copyright Issues for Australian Schools and TAFE'
• Spectrum of Rights ● A cute explanation of how Creative Commons licences work
• Teaching Copyright ● 'EFF's Teaching Copyright curriculum was created to help teachers present the laws surrounding digital rights in a balanced way.'
• The Case for Copyright Reform ● "The book is a compilation of the strongest articles on reform of the copyright monopoly from Christian Engström (MEP) and [Rick Falkvinge]"
• The Digital Public Domain ● "[T]he authors argue that the Public Domain — that is, the informational works owned by all of us, be that literature, music, the output of scientific research, educational material or public sector information — is fundamental to a healthy society."
• The Foundations for an Open Source City ● A book about how Raleigh, North Carolina became an 'open source city'.
• The Libre Labyrinth ● "Navigating the Maze of Free and NonFree Licenses"
• The Open Book ● 'The Open Book is a crowdsourced publication that introduces the global movement for open knowledge in the words of those who are helping to build it today.'
• The Open Source Way ● A book about open source projects.
• The Power of Open ● A book from Creative Commons about how those licences have been used in various projects.
• The Wealth of the Commons ● 'A new collection of 73 essays that describe the enormous potential of the commons in conceptualizing and building a better future'
• Trolling Effects ● 'Trolling Effects is a resource for those who have been targeted by patent trolls.'
• What's the Deal with Copyright and 3D Printing ● What it says.
• Why Open Education Matters ● A contest where people were asked to 'Create a short video that explains the benefits and promise of Open Educational Resources for teachers, students and schools everywhere.'
• Why the Heck Should I Care about the TPP? ● What it says.
• Winning the Web ● '[T]his report represents a comprehensive survey of techniques employed in recent access to knowledge (A2K) activism that have succeeded in taking intellectual property (IP) reform issues to a wide audience.'

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Sources

• Against Monopoly ● A blog on intellectual property.
• Australian Digital Alliance ● An Australian body providing a 'balanced voice' in copyright discussions.
• Authors Alliance ● 'The Authors Alliance embraces the unprecedented potential digital networks have for the creation and distribution of knowledge and culture. We represent the interests of authors who want to harness this potential to share their creations more broadly in order to serve the public good.'
• Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom ● Anti-IP libertarian blog from Stephen Kinsella.
• Center For The Study Of The Public Domain ● A center at Duke Law School.
• Communia ● 'The Association’s mission is to educate about, advocate for, offer expertise and research about the public domain in the digital age within society and with policy-makers.'
• Comunes ● 'Comunes is a non-profit collective dedicated to facilitating the use of free/libre web tools and resources to collectives and activists alike, with the hopes of encouraging the Commons.'
• CopySouth Research Group ● A group of researchers seeking to reveal the negative impact of copyright on the Global South.
• Creationistas ● A lobbying site in favour of fair use.
• Creative Commons ● A non-profit organisation devoted to increasing the number of works available for all to share and adapt.
• David Bollier ● "David Bollier is a journalist, activist, and longtime scholar of the commons."
• Electronic Frontier Foundation ● 'Defending your rights in the digital world'
• Greg London ● A programmer, science fiction author and copyright minimalist.
• iCommons ● "iCommons is a registered UK charity that promotes collaboration among proponents of open education, access to knowledge, free software, open access publishing and free culture communities around the world."
• La Quadrature du Net ● 'La Quadrature du Net is an advocacy group defending the rights and freedoms of citizens on the Internet.'
• Lawrence Liang ● A lawyer.
• Nicky Case ● A programmer.
• Open Knowledge Foundation ● 'We build tools and communities to promote open knowledge around the world.'
• Open Library of the Humanities ● 'Welcome to the initial ideas hub for the Open LIbrary of Humanities (OLH): a project exploring a PLOS-style model for the humanities and social sciences.'
• Open Policy Network ● 'The mission of the Open Policy Network is to foster the creation, adoption and implementation of open policies and practices that advance the public good by supporting open policy advocates, organizations and policy makers, connecting open policy opportunities with assistance, and sharing open policy information.'
• opensource.com ● "At opensource.com, we want to show you the places where the open source way is multiplying ideas and effort, even beyond technology."
• Public Knowledge ● Preserves 'the openness of the Internet and the public's access to knowledge, promotes creativity through balanced copyright, and upholds and protects the rights of consumers to use innovative technology lawfully.'
• QuestionCopyright.org ● An advocacy group for copyright reform.
• Simone Aliprandi ● A researcher into copyright.
• Software Freedom Conservancy ● 'Software Freedom Conservancy is a not-for-profit organization that helps promote, improve, develop, and defend Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects.'
• SPARC ● '[A]n international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system.'
• Stephen Kinsella ● An anti-IP libertarian writer and lawyer.

All Shareable Resources

Works

• 2012 Holiday Giving Guide ● 'The gifts in the left column respect your freedom much more than those in the right column.'
• 2012 Libre Gift Guide ● 'A list of libre things that one might enjoy receiving from one's acquaintances at upcoming gift-giving occasions.'
• A Free, Libre & Open Glossary ● A definition of terms like 'open source', 'crowdsourcing', 'gratis' and 'shareable content'.
• A Guide to Open Content Licenses ● What it says.
• A Survey about Copyright in the Digital Age ● A survey about people's conception of copyright.
• Accessibility, Sustainability, Excellence ● '[R]ecommends a programme of action to enable more people to read and use the publications arising from research.'
• Achieving Impossible Things ● 'Six "impossible things": GNU/Linux, Wikipedia, the Creative Commons, the Blender Foundation, Open Hardware, and the OLPC/Sugar project. All created under free licenses for everyone to use, in defiance of our conventional ideas of business economics. Is it magic, coincidence, or just plain common sense at work here?'
• Against Intellectual Property ● 'Kinsella [argues] that the very existence of patents are contrary to a free market, and adds in here copyrights and trademarks too.'
• All Right to Copy? ● '"All Right to Copy?" is a resource designed to teach students about copyright, and how it impacts them as both users and creators.'
• An Open World ● "This collection offers some of the most enpowering stories from our open source community—and perhaps you could be in the next edition."
• Australian Government Intellectual Property Manual ● Government guidelines for implementing 'open licensing'.
• Big Buck Bunny Loves Creative Commons ● Why Creative Commons matters.
• Bound By Law? ● A comic book about intellectual property law.
• Bounty Hunters, Map Makers & Gold Diggers ● Metaphors for Designing Fair Intellectual Property Laws
• Choosing an OSS license doesn’t need to be scary ● A guide to choosing a licence.
• Coase's Penguin ● An analysis of the economics behind free, libre and open source software.
• Code ● 'cyberspace has no “nature.” It only has code-the software and hardware that make cyberspace what it is. That code can create a place of freedom-as the original architecture of the Net did-or a place of oppressive control. '
• Consequences, Risks, and side-effects of the license module Non-Commercial – NC ● The title is comprehensive.
• Copyleft Notice ● A song about copyleft.
• Copyright and Creation ● A report from the London School of Economics and Political Science, finding that online sharing does not reduce creator profits.
• Copyright for Librarians ● '"Copyright for Librarians" (CFL) is an online open curriculum on copyright law that was developed jointly with Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.'
• Copyright in Databases in Australia ● An article on the circumstances under which copyright would apply to databases.
• Copyright Week ● A project from the EFF about problems with copyright.
• CopySouth Dossier ● 'Issues in the economics, politics, and ideology of copyright in the global South'
• #COPYWRONG ● Facts about how Australian copyright law is out of touch.
• Creative Commons & Government Guide ● A guide to using Creative Commons licensing in government.
• Creative Commons: A User Guide ● A step-by-step guide to the world of CC licences.
• Design Livre ● 'Design Livre is an attitude, a way of conceiving the design and seek a comprehensive and inclusive look, recognizing designs made by people.' (translated from Portuguese)
• Drafting The Gift Domain ● "an introduction to Open Content projects with respect to how they work, how they are designed, and how they continue to exist alongside Market driven entities."
• Framed!! ● Short videos about how law constraints culture.
• Free as in Freedom ● A biography of free software guru Richard Stallman.
• Free Beer (book) ● A book about free software and free culture from the speakers at FSCONS 2008.
• Free Culture Guide ● An Arabic guide to free culture.
• Free Knowledge based on Creative Commons Licenses. Consequences, risks and side-effects of the license module 'non-commercial us ● Problems with using the NonCommercial Creative Commons licence term.
• Free Software, Free Society ● Selected essays of Richard Stallman.
• Free to Mix ● 'The guide gives you information, activities and ideas to confidently create a remix from material you know you have the rights to reuse.'
• FreeSouls.cc ● Photos of Joi Ito and writings from others.
• Future of Copyright ● A competition for fiction and non-fiction entries on copyright.
• Future of Copyright 2.0 ● A collection of fiction and non-fiction.
• Google Chrome (comic book) ● An introduction to Google's open source browser project.
• Guide to Developing OA Journals ● What it says in the title.
• How Open Is It? ● Defining open access.
• In the Shade of the Commons ● About bridging the gaps between information societies.
• Income Models for Open Access ● Developing a business model for an open access journal.
• Intellectual Property: Law and the Information Society ● "This book is an introduction to intellectual property law, the set of private legal rights that allows individuals and corporations to control intangible creations and marks—from logos to novels to drug formulae—and the exceptions and limitations that define those rights."
• International Free & Open Source Software Law Review ● The International Free and Open Source Software Law Review (IFOSS L. Rev.) is a collaborative legal publication aiming to increase knowledge and understanding among lawyers about Free and Open Source Software issues.
• International Journal of the Commons ● A journal that discusses resources that can be shared and used collectively.
• It's a Jetsons World ● A book which contrasts extraordinary private innovation with government recalcitrance.
• Libre Culture ● An anthology arguing for freeing up works from copyright.
• Libre Graphics Magazine ● A magazine focused on GIMP, Inkscape and other open source graphics software — as well as the art created from that software.
• Librebus ● A project to raise awareness of libre.
• Meet Creative Commons ● A video introducing and explaining Creative Commons.
• Moving Image Contest ● The results of a contest to explain the tension between culture and copyright.
• Muktware ● A Linux magazine.
• On the Commons ● 'On the Commons (OTC) is a commons movement strategy center founded in 2001. [Its] purpose is to activate the emergence of a commons-based society'.
• Open Access EBooks ● 'This chapter discusses what Open Access means in the context of e-books, how Open Access e-books can be supported, and the roles that Open Access e-books will play in libraries and in our society.'
• Open Access Explained! ● 'What is open access? Nick Shockey and Jonathan Eisen take us through the world of open access publishing and explain just what it's all about.'
• Open Data Handbook ● 'This handbook introduces you to the legal, social and technical aspects of open data. It can be used by anyone but is especially useful for those working with government data. It discusses the why, what and how of open data – why to go open, what open is, and the how to do open.'
• Open Data, Open Society ● A research project about openness of public data in EU local administrations
• Open Design Now ● A book about the importance of open design.
• Open Minded CEOs ● A book.
• Open Source Licensing ● ' Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law'
• Panton Discussions ● Conversations about open data in science.
• Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning ● '[D]escribes the [OER] movement in detail, providing readers with insight into OER’s significant benefits, its theory and practice, and its achievements and challenges.'
• Producing Open Source Software ● "How to Run a Successful Free Software Project"
• Right To Music ● A free, fair, independent music advocacy group.
• Right2Remix ● Advocating for legal remixing.
• Shared Creations ● 'Making use of Creative Commons'
• Sharing ● 'Sharing makes a case for the legitimacy and usefulness of non-market sharing between individuals of digital works.'
• Sharing is Liberty ● A blog about copyright reform.
• Smartcopying ● 'The Official Guide to Copyright Issues for Australian Schools and TAFE'
• Spectrum of Rights ● A cute explanation of how Creative Commons licences work
• Teaching Copyright ● 'EFF's Teaching Copyright curriculum was created to help teachers present the laws surrounding digital rights in a balanced way.'
• The Art of Community ● About open source, crowdsourcing and community creation from Jono Bacon, the man who runs Wired.
• The Case for Copyright Reform ● "The book is a compilation of the strongest articles on reform of the copyright monopoly from Christian Engström (MEP) and [Rick Falkvinge]"
• The Cathedral and The Bazaar ● Why open source works.
• The Digital Public Domain ● "[T]he authors argue that the Public Domain — that is, the informational works owned by all of us, be that literature, music, the output of scientific research, educational material or public sector information — is fundamental to a healthy society."
• The Foundations for an Open Source City ● A book about how Raleigh, North Carolina became an 'open source city'.
• The Libre Labyrinth ● "Navigating the Maze of Free and NonFree Licenses"
• The Open Book ● 'The Open Book is a crowdsourced publication that introduces the global movement for open knowledge in the words of those who are helping to build it today.'
• The Open Source Way ● A book about open source projects.
• The Power of Open ● A book from Creative Commons about how those licences have been used in various projects.
• The Public Domain ● A book on copyright, copyleft and everything else.
• The Wealth of the Commons ● 'A new collection of 73 essays that describe the enormous potential of the commons in conceptualizing and building a better future'
• Trolling Effects ● 'Trolling Effects is a resource for those who have been targeted by patent trolls.'
• What's the Deal with Copyright and 3D Printing ● What it says.
• Why Open Education Matters ● A contest where people were asked to 'Create a short video that explains the benefits and promise of Open Educational Resources for teachers, students and schools everywhere.'
• Why the Heck Should I Care about the TPP? ● What it says.
• Winning the Web ● '[T]his report represents a comprehensive survey of techniques employed in recent access to knowledge (A2K) activism that have succeeded in taking intellectual property (IP) reform issues to a wide audience.'

Sources

• Against Monopoly ● A blog on intellectual property.
• Australian Digital Alliance ● An Australian body providing a 'balanced voice' in copyright discussions.
• Authors Alliance ● 'The Authors Alliance embraces the unprecedented potential digital networks have for the creation and distribution of knowledge and culture. We represent the interests of authors who want to harness this potential to share their creations more broadly in order to serve the public good.'
• Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom ● Anti-IP libertarian blog from Stephen Kinsella.
• Center For The Study Of The Public Domain ● A center at Duke Law School.
• Communia ● 'The Association’s mission is to educate about, advocate for, offer expertise and research about the public domain in the digital age within society and with policy-makers.'
• Comunes ● 'Comunes is a non-profit collective dedicated to facilitating the use of free/libre web tools and resources to collectives and activists alike, with the hopes of encouraging the Commons.'
• CopySouth Research Group ● A group of researchers seeking to reveal the negative impact of copyright on the Global South.
• Creationistas ● A lobbying site in favour of fair use.
• Creative Commons ● A non-profit organisation devoted to increasing the number of works available for all to share and adapt.
• David Bollier ● "David Bollier is a journalist, activist, and longtime scholar of the commons."
• Electronic Frontier Foundation ● 'Defending your rights in the digital world'
• Greg London ● A programmer, science fiction author and copyright minimalist.
• iCommons ● "iCommons is a registered UK charity that promotes collaboration among proponents of open education, access to knowledge, free software, open access publishing and free culture communities around the world."
• La Quadrature du Net ● 'La Quadrature du Net is an advocacy group defending the rights and freedoms of citizens on the Internet.'
• Larry Lessig ● Founder of Creative Commons.
• Lawrence Liang ● A lawyer.
• Nicky Case ● A programmer.
• Open Knowledge Foundation ● 'We build tools and communities to promote open knowledge around the world.'
• Open Library of the Humanities ● 'Welcome to the initial ideas hub for the Open LIbrary of Humanities (OLH): a project exploring a PLOS-style model for the humanities and social sciences.'
• Open Policy Network ● 'The mission of the Open Policy Network is to foster the creation, adoption and implementation of open policies and practices that advance the public good by supporting open policy advocates, organizations and policy makers, connecting open policy opportunities with assistance, and sharing open policy information.'
• opensource.com ● "At opensource.com, we want to show you the places where the open source way is multiplying ideas and effort, even beyond technology."
• Public Knowledge ● Preserves 'the openness of the Internet and the public's access to knowledge, promotes creativity through balanced copyright, and upholds and protects the rights of consumers to use innovative technology lawfully.'
• QuestionCopyright.org ● An advocacy group for copyright reform.
• Simone Aliprandi ● A researcher into copyright.
• Software Freedom Conservancy ● 'Software Freedom Conservancy is a not-for-profit organization that helps promote, improve, develop, and defend Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects.'
• SPARC ● '[A]n international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system.'
• Stephen Kinsella ● An anti-IP libertarian writer and lawyer.
• Yochai Benkler ● A professor of law and author of works on commons-based production.