Who Owns Information (6) : Links and References

ACM, Association for Computing Machinery

The Association for Computing Machinery conducts a special forum on Computing and Public Policy (http://www.acm.org/serving/ ). One of the more notable activities is Peter G. Neuman's The Risks Digest, a moderated USENET forum (comp.risks , Google/ DejaNews archive )

ALA, Americal Library Association

The Americal Library Association has a number of programs focusing on Diversity, Equity of Access, Education and Continuous Learning, Intellectual Freedom, and 21st Century Literacy. http://www.ala.org/

Anne Wells Banscomb

Branscomb Family Foundation in Cyberspace. http://www.branscomb.org/  
(1996) Cyberspaces: Familiar Territory or Lawless Frontiers , Journal of Computer Mediated, Volume 1, Nr 1. Nr 2., June 1996. http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol2/issue1/intro.html
(1994) Who Owns Information? From Privacy to Public Access, Basic Books, New York.

Center for  Intllectual Property, University of Maryland, University College

DIGITAL-COPYRIGHT is a discussion group that provides a forum for the analysis of topics such as copyright law and policy, technologies, and federal information law and policies that impact higher education, particularly digital distance education. The list hosts a discussion of ongoing issues at http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/listserv.html

CNI, Coallition for Networked Information

The Coallition for Networked Information is an organization dedicated to the advancement of networked information technology to support scholarly communication. (http://www.cni.org/ )

Lawrence Lessig

Lawrence Lessig is a professor of law at Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society. (http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/ )

(2001) The Future of Ideas, Random House, New York, http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/future/  

(1999) Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Basic Books, New York, http://code-is-law.org/

Open Knowledge Initiative,  Massachusetts Institute of  Technology

The Open Knowledge Initiative is an open source university curriculum project aiming to put the course material for all of MIT's undergraduate courses on-line by the year 2010. (http://web.mit.edu/oki/ ).