[cc-community] Resources on the history of the copyleft movement...
Aaron Shaw
adshaw at berkeley.edu
Wed Mar 14 21:54:25 EST 2007
I think that "authoritative and accurate" history you're looking for has yet
to be written (at least in English as far as I am aware). Perhaps you'll
write it as a dissertation? In the meantime, I would also check out both of
these titles (sorry if they're obvious):
- S. Weber. 2004. The Success of Open Source. (esp chs 2-3 on the history of
OSS - which overlaps somewhat)
- L. Lessig. 2000. Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
And these articles (sorry if these are also obvious):
- Eben Moglen. "Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of
Copyright." First Monday.
http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/anarchism.html
- Richard Stallman, GNU Manifesto, available at:
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html
If you want more stuff that dives into the legal "issues" of copyleft, cc,
or OSS, I can pass along those as well. It doesn't sound like that's what
you're going for at the moment, though.
cheers,
Aaron
On 3/14/07, Christopher Rios <crios at crios.info> wrote:
> I'm currently working on a copyleft presentation for a graduate class
> I am taking and a group of librarians. I am an advocate of Creative
> Commons and will be incorporating a message of endorsement. I'm
> trying to find a history of the copyleft movement and was hoping that
> somebody might be able to point me towards a resource that is
> accurate and authoritative (whatever that may mean). I've looked at
> Wikipedia but I'm going to be needing other sources if I want to be
> taken seriously by a roomful of librarians.
>
> Thanks
> Chris Rios
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