[cc-community] Resources on the history of the copyleft movement...

Fred Benenson fred at creativecommons.org
Wed Mar 14 22:23:48 EST 2007


Apologies, here is the link to the actual timeline we compiled:

http://beyondbroadcast.net/wiki07/index.php?title=Free_Culture_Timeline


F


On 3/14/07, Fred Benenson <fred at creativecommons.org> wrote:
>
> I was part of a working group at the Beyond Broadcast 2007 conference
> where we worked on developing a timeline for Free Culture events. While it
> might not qualify as "authoritative" to a room full librarians, I think we
> managed to hit on the significant develops in the copyleft world over the
> last decade or so.
>
> Check it out here:
>
> http://beyondbroadcast.net/wiki07/index.php?title=Free_Culture_Activism_and_the_Mass_Media_Conversation
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> Fred B
>
>
> On 3/14/07, Aaron Shaw <adshaw at berkeley.edu> wrote:
> >
> > 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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