This article on the removal of Downfall parodies from YouTube by the film’s producer, has it all: the commons, debates over copyright, remix, intermedia engagements, and note the last paragraph on the database—the power of the archive once again.

This is a really great guide to using picture sharing sites and more in activism, or in fact anything remotely looking like citizen journalism. Use these resources while they’re there as part of the Commons!

Following on from Gillian’s lecture on the Commons in ARTS2090 but reproduced here in MDCM3000. (What used to be only) print journalism is getting very interesting. Never really a commons in the full sense, but not quite not a commons, it became more of one with the Internet. Now there are attempts to enclose the commons again. If anyone is going to succeed in this it will be the New York Times. They are very carefully training readers into new modes of publishing as they go, before putting up carefully variegated-threshold paywalls in 2011. One example is this NY Times reader you can download. They also have a fairly extensive notification and feed set up, and have thought about their online layout and general design (which combines a sense of the old and new NY Times very well).

Used in the Lecture

http://bavatuesdays.com/a-message-from-the-bava/ (this is a great blog by Jim Groom, one of the champions of open education, to whom we at UNSW will always be grateful).

Lessig 1; Lessig 2

Lawrence Lessig’s Ted lecture (the law is strangling creativity) (in general the Ted lectures are great on all kinds of topics)

The Internet as Playground and Factory conference

Creative Commons

Edupunk …

personal learning spaces

Lawrence Lessig

Lessig’s site (lots of downloads, including his books)

Lessig Videos

Free Culture (audio plus good powerpoint—main points)

Against transparency (analysis)

Elinor Ostrom

Nobel Prize analysis

What she does (basic)

What she thinks

Cooperation/Commons

Ostrom on

Insights on Linking Forests, Trees, and People from the Air, on the Ground, …

Profile/Summary

More links

P2P foundation/P2P foundation/P2P Foundation Blog/Michel Bauwens (great thinker about these issues—also gathers excellent resources)

Howard Rheingold

Edupunk: Stephen Downes; Anthem;  definitions; Edupunk Battle Royale;

Bavatuesdays is a great blog to read on these matters … As is Mike Bogle’s Techticker

Open Access Publishing— a good place to start might be Open Humanities Press or the Public Library of Science

ARTS1091

Open Access

Open Source

Copyright

Good Copy Bad Copy (downloadable film—I’m not saying I agree with everything in it, or on these sites, by the way

Open Access Education

Open Access Publishing

Cooperation/CreativeCommons/Community

Everything Open/Open Everything