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Information Wants to be Free

"Information Wants to be Free", by Roger Clarke 
A genealogy of the phrase "Information wants to be free". 
http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/II/IWtbF.html

Information Wants to be Valuable: A Report from the First O'Reilly Perl Conference 
http://www.netaction.org/articles/freesoft.html

Software Wants to Be Free, Wired View, ohne Datum 
http://www.wired.com/news/news/wiredview/story/4753.html

Gregory Stobbs, Information Wants To Be Free, But The Packaging Is Going To Cost You!, 2 MICH.TELECOMM.TECH.L.REV. 75 (1996) 
http://www.www.mttlr.org/voltwo/stobbs.html

The Rise and Fall of Wired, by Stephen Downes 
2. Information Wants to be Free (various links to Wired articles) 
http://www.atl.ualberta.ca/downes/wired/specifics2.htm

The Magic Cauldron, by Eric S. Raymond, June 1999 
4. The ``information wants to be free'' Myth 
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/magic-cauldron/magic-cauldron-4.html

Why Information Wants to be Free, essay, no author 
http://www.wwa.com/~nospam/Information.html
 
 

Pirates

PIRATE UTOPIAS is a Web-delivered hyperdocument dealing with correspondences between the Buccaneer enclaves of the 17th and 18th Centuries and certain aspects of contemporary Hacker culture. a project of the Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory, in the Radio, Television, Film Department of the University of Texas at Austin. 
http://www.actlab.utexas.edu/~vreed/PU_shock/

Information Wants to Be Free - But This Is Ridiculous. We go on a shopping spree for pirate software in Asia, A. Lin Neumann, Wired 3.10 - Oct 1995 
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.10/piracy.html
 

Hacking

infOrmatiOn wants tO be free! 
I am a hacker, enter my world... 
http://www.flashback.se/hack/1998/05/08/2/

Re: Security is immoral, information wants to be free! 
Julian Assange (proff@suburbia.net), 30 Aug 1995 12:47:57 GMT 
http://www.anatomy.usyd.edu.au/danny/usenet/aus.net.aarnet/archive/august-1995/0171.html
 

Free Software

Why Software Should Not Have Owners, by Richard Stallman 
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.html

digital l'art pour l'art: the Amiga demo scene, SPIV's FAQ
http://www.hgb-leipzig.de/projekt/student/spiv/ift6.htm
 
 

Free Speech

FYI France: If you think "information wants to be free"... 
outcry of librarians against the Front National banning publications from municipal libriaries. (posted 15 Apr 1997) 
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/exlibris/1997/04/msg00180.html

Blue Ribbon Campaign by EFF 
http://www.eff.org/blueribbon.html
 

Libraries and museums: free access to digital information 

Rechtskommission des EDBI (Ehemaliges Deutsches Bibliotheksinstitut): Veroeffentlichungen
http://www.dbi-berlin.de/dbi_pub/einzelth/rechtpub/re_pu_00.htm

Urheberrecht in der Informationsgesellschaft.
Gemeinsames Positionspapier von BDB (Bundesvereinigung Deutscher Bibliotheksverbaende) und DBI
http://www.dbi-berlin.de/dbi_ber/recht/urh-einl.htm

DOBInet - bibliothekarische Fachliteratur im Internet:
Urheberrecht (abwicklungsbedingt nicht mehr aktuell)
http://www.dbi-berlin.de/dbi_ber/dobi/dobinet/ls01147.htm#01.13.02

The New Media Encyclopedia 
the first trilingual English-French-German catalogue of its kind freely available on-line. It is intended as a source of information, a tool for documentary research, and a scholarly work, but also a locus of debate on artistic practices related to the new media.
by Centre Georges Pompidou, the Museum Ludwig, and the Centre pour l'Image Contemporaine
http://www.newmedia-arts.org/sommaire/english/Projet/

Short report on the fourth annual BC Information Policy Conference "Cyber-Access: A Call for Action" by the BC Library Association 
http://www.peak.sfu.ca/the-peak/95-3/issue10/copyr.html

VAB - Virtuelle Allgemeinbibliothek
http://bibliothek.freepage.de
 
 

The Fine and Unfine Arts

Copy.Cult : Free Art license [ Copyleft Attitude ] Version 1.1 | Licence Art Libre 

Joost Smiers, Copyrights: a choice of no-choice for artists and third world countries; the public domain is losing anyway, in: Copy-Cult 

DECENTRAL/AUTONOMOUS/USER GENERATED DATABASE FOR NET/MEDIA/ART
by remote users / container by by Stephan (Spiv) Schröder, Leipzig
http://www.verybusy.org/

digital l'art pour l'art: the Amiga demo scene, SPIV's FAQ
http://www.hgb-leipzig.de/projekt/student/spiv/ift6.htm

Tape Beatles
http://soli.inav.net/~psvf/home.html
 
 

Free Content Licenses

Free Art license [ Copyleft Attitude ] Version 1.1 | Licence Art Libre 

OpenContent Publication License (OPL) 
http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/
http://www.opencontent.org/opl.html

Counter-Copyright [cc] of Berkman Center for Internet & Society der Harvard Law School
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/cc/

Open Source Community On Manufacturing Knowlegde (OSCOMAK)
http://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/oscomak/index.htm

GNU Free Documentations License (FDL)
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html

GNU General Public License (GPL)
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Var. Documentation Licenses
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#DocumentationLicenses
 
 

Beyond Intellectual Property

Eben Moglen, Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright, First Monday, August 1999
http://old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/anarchism.html

Copyright's Commons at Berkman Center for Internet & Society
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/cc/
 
 

Free Economy & Business

Richard Barbrook, The Regulation of Liberty: free speech, free trade and free gifts on the Net, in Copy-Cult

Links on Online Publishing, censorship, copyright protection 
by Open Book Systems 
http://www.obs-us.com/obs/english/papers/top.htm

The Freedom to Innovate Network (FIN) 
a non-partisan, grassroots network of citizens and businesses who have a stake in the success of Microsoft and the high-tech industry. 
http://www.microsoft.com/freedomtoinnovate/default.htm
 
 

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