Compendium
The compendium for the autumn semester 2011 is now available; please follow link.
Recommended/supporting literature:
The list below contains recommended or supporting literature. The mandatory curriculum is found on the course wiki.
- Regarding commons-based peer production, the key paper is Coase's Penguin, or, Linux and The Nature of the Firm, by Yochai Benkler, The Yale Law Journal, Vol 212, 2002. Not so easy but we will come back to it repeatedly during the course.
- Two classic commons papers where you need to master the main ideas The Tragedy of the Commons, by Garret Hardin, Science, Vol. 162, pp. 1243-1248,1968 and Can Patents deter Innovation? The Anticommons in Biomedical Research, by Michael Heller and Rebecca Eisenberg, Science, Vol. 280, pp. 698-701, 1998.
- Part I and II of The generative Internet, by Jonathan L. Zittrain, 119 Harv. L. Rev. pp. 1974-2040, 2006. Somewhat more technical introductions to the Internet are "Hva er Internet" by Gisle Hannemyr, Universitetsforlaget, 2005 and"Inventing the Internet" by Janet Abbate, MIT press 2000.
- Free software: Free Software, Free Society, Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman, GNU Press, 2002. (Emphasis on the introduction by Lawrence Lessig and Sections one and two, meaning Chap. 1 to 16.)
- Open source: The Cathedral and the Bazaar , by Eric Raymond, O'Reilly 2001. (Emphasis in the two essays "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" and "Homesteading the Noosphere".)
- Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman. GNU Press, Boston, Massachusetts, 2002.
- Open content: Free Culture , by Lawrence Lessig, Penguin Books 2004.
- On innovation, you must know the basic ideas as expressed by Eric von Hippel in his book: Democratizing innovation MIT Press 2005.
Requirements
The following requirements are mandatory:
- Each candidate participates in a CBPP project of choice, and presents briefly experiences in participating in such undertakings.
- Each candidate participates in a group work with the goal to write a report / article. The subject of this assignment must be related to the course, and will be chosen in cooperation with the course supervisors.
- Each group presents a mid-term report, described in the course wiki.
- Each group presents a final report, described in the course wiki; including the paper itself.