Books

Section in a book about open licensing and Creative Industries.

The Intellectual Property Office in the UK has a useful licensing booklet that contains a checklist of what to think about when licensing IP

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…

SHARING IS CARING. Openness and sharing in the cultural heritage sector is an anthology that explores the changes and opportunities brought about by digitisation, digital media, and the internet for the cultural heritage world and – not least –…

This book brings together essays by academics, librarians, entrepreneurs, activists and policy makers, who were all part of the EU-funded Communia project. Together the authors argue that the Public Domain — that is, the informational works owned…

Book chapter on Nasty Old People, the first Swedish feature film to be distributed for free under a Creative Commons license through the peer-to-peer file-sharing service The Pirate Bay. This collaboration tried out new forms of distributed open…

Photomediations: A Reader offers a radically different way of understanding photography. The concept of photomediations that unites the twenty scholarly and curatorial essays collected here cuts across the traditional classification of photography…

Photomediations: An Open Book redesigns a coffee-table book as an online experience. Through a comprehensive introduction (Chapter 1) and four chapters (Chapters 2-5) featuring over 200 images drawn from various open repositories, it tells a unique…