Reclaiming the
Commons
Building Community Wealth by Expanding the Public Domain
ARTICLES
Peter Barnes, “The Pollution Dividend,” The American
Prospect, May 1999.
article-barnes.pdf
(120KB)
Yochai Benkler, “Freedom in the Commons: Toward a Political
Economy of Information,” Duke Law Journal, vol. 52, 2003,
pp. 1245-1276.
article-benkler2.pdf
(168KB)
Yochai Benkler, “From Consumers to Users: Shifting the Deeper
Structures of Regulation Toward Sustainable Commons and User Access,”
Federal Communications Law Journal, vol. 52 no. 3 (2000), pp. 561-579.
article-benkler1.pdf
(85KB)
David Bollier, “Why We Must Talk about the Information Commons,”
Law Library Journal, vol. 96, no. 2 (2004), pp. 267-282.
article-bollier.pdf
(360KB)
James Boyle, “The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction
of the Public Domain,” Law & Contemporary Problems, vol.
66, winter/spring 2003, pp. 33-74.
article-boyle.pdf
(316KB)
Scot Case, “In Praise of Unsung Heroes: Local Government
Officials Learning the Power of Green Purchasing,” Enough!,
issue 19, spring 2002, pp. 5-7.
article-case.pdf
(132KB)
William Fischer, “A royalties plan for file sharing,”
CNET.com, July 11, 2003.
article-fischer.pdf
(72KB)
Brett M. Frischmann, "An Economic Theory of Infrastructure and Commons Management," Minnesota Law Review, vol. 89, 2005, pp. 917-1030.
article-frischmann.pdf (1MB)
Jane Gerloff, “Time Dollars: A Currency that Creates Community—An
Interview with Auta Main,” More Than Money, Issue 37, summer
2004, pp. 14-17.
article-gerloff.pdf
(568KB)
Michael A. Heller and Rebecca S. Eisenberg, “Can Patents
Deter Innovation? The Anticommons in Biomedical Research,”
Science, vol. 280, May 1, 1998, pp. 698-701.
article-heller-eisenberg.pdf
(328KB)
Brent Hurtig, “Broadband Cowboy,” Wired, Issue 10.01
– January 2002.
article-hurtig.pdf
(120KB)
Karl Linn, “Reclaiming the Sacred Commons,” New Village, issue
1, 1999, pp. 42-49.
article-linn.pdf
(360KB)
Margot Lystra, “The Green Divide,” The Next American City, issue
14, Green Building, Spring 2007.
article-lystra.pdf
(88KB)
Dedrick Muhammad and Chuck Collins, “Race, Wealth and the Commons,”
Poverty & Race, vol. 16, no. 3, May/June 2007.
article-muhammad-collins.pdf
(84KB)
David G. Myers, “Wealth, Well-Being and the New American Dream,”
Enough!, issue 12, summer 2000, pp. 5-7.
article-myers.pdf
(60KB)
Mark S. Nadel, “How Current Copyright Law Discourages Creative
Output: The Overlooked Impact of Marketing,” Berkeley Technology
Law Journal, vol. 19, no. 2 (2004), pp. 785-856.
article-nadel.pdf
(452KB)
Jonathan Rowe, "How Commerce Consumed the Commons," Bainbridge,
WA: Yes! Magazine, Winter 2007.
article-rowe.pdf (300KB)
Pamela Samuelson, “Mapping the Digital Public Domain: Threats
and Opportunities,” Law & Contemporary Problems, vol.
66, winter/spring 2003, pp. 147-171,
article-samuelson.pdf
(228KB)
Paul Starr, “The Electronic Commons,” The American
Prospect, Online Edition, March 27, 2000.
article-starr.pdf
(144KB)
Betsy Taylor, “Buy Different: Building Consumer Demand for
Sustainable Goods,” Enough!, issue 12, summer 2000, pp. 1-2,
11.
article-taylor.pdf
(48KB)
Siva Vaidhyanathan, “The state of copyright activism,” First Monday,
volume 9, number 4, April 2004.
article-vaidhyanathan.pdf
(85KB)
Jay Walljasper, Water for All: Talkin’ About a Commons Revolution, Point
Reyes, CA: onthecommons.org, June 25, 2008.
article-walljasper.pdf (1.6MB)
BOOKS
Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production
Transforms Markets and Freedom, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
2006.
book-benkler.pdf
(3.5MB)
David Bollier, Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common
Wealth, New York, NY: Routledge, 2002.
book-bollier-intro.pdf
(172KB)
Stephen A. Hansen and Justin W. VanFleet, Traditional Knowledge
and Intellectual Property: A Handbook on Issues and Options for
Traditional Knowledge Holders in Protecting their Intellectual Property
and Maintaining Biological Diversity, Washington, DC: American Association
for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Human Rights Program,
July 2003.
book-hansen-vanFleet.pdf
(2.3MB)
Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and
the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, New York, NY:
Penguin Press, 2004.
book-lessig.pdf
(2.4MB)
Roy Morrison, Markets, Democracy & Survival: How to Be Prosperous Without
Being Self-Destructive, Warner, NH: Writer’s Publishing Cooperative, 2007.
book-morrison.pdf (1.8MB)
Elinor Ostrom, “Design Principles of Robust Property Rights Institutions:
What Have We Learned?” Property Rights and Land Policies (Gregory K. Ingram
and Yu-Hung Hong, editors), Cambridge MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy,
2009.
chapter-ostrom.pdf (500KB)
Siva Vaidhyanathan, Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual
Property and How It Threatens Creativity, New York, NY: New York
University Press, 2001.
book-vaidhyanathan-intro.pdf
(85KB).
PAPERS
Katherine L. Adam, Community Supported Agriculture, Fayetteville,
AR: National Center for Appropriate Technology, 2006.
paper-adam.pdf
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John Bailey, Lessons from the Pioneers: Tackling Global Warming at the Local
Level, Minneapolis, MN: Institute for Local Self-Reliance, January 2007.
paper-bailey.pdf
(464KB)
Peter Barnes, Capitalism, The Commons And Divine Right, Speech, Stockbridge, MA:
Twenty-Third Annual E.F. Schumacher Lectures, October 25, 2003.
paper-barnes.pdf (300KB)
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Peter Barnes, Carbon Capping: A Citizen's Guide, Minneapolis, MN: Tomales Bay Institute, 2007.
paper-barnes07.pdf (500KB)
Peter Barnes and Rafe Pomerance, Pie in the Sky: The Battle for Atmospheric
Scarcity Rent, Washington, DC: Corporation for Enterprise Development, 2000.
paper-barnes-pomerance.pdf
(96KB)
Yochai Benkler, The Commons as a Neglected Factor of Information Policy, Alexandria,
VA: 26th Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Oct. 3-5, 1998.
paper-benkler1.pdf
(85KB)
Yochai Benkler, Property, Commons, and the First Amendment: Towards a Core
Common Infrastructure, New York, NY: White Paper for the First Amendment Program
Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, March 2001.
paper-benkler2.pdf
(156KB)
David Bollier, The Clash of Markets and Commons—and How
It Affects Science, Economic Performance and Democracy, Vancouver,
BC, Canada: Conscience and Science Forum, Simon Fraser University,
University of Victoria, and The Innovation and Science Council of
British Columbia, April 29, 2004.
paper-bollier1.pdf
(140KB)
David Bollier, Is the Commons a Movement? Berlin, Germany: conference on The
Wizards of OS3: The Future of the Digital Commons, June 12, 2004.
paper-bollier2.pdf
(92KB)
James K. Boyce and Manuel Pastor, Building Natural Assets: New Strategies for
Poverty Reduction and Environmental Protection, Amherst, MA: Center for Popular
Education, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts,
2001.
paper-boyce-pastor.pdf
(744KB)
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James K. Boyce and Matthew Riddle, Cap and Dividend: How to Curb Global Warming While Protecting the Incomes of American Families, Amherst, MA: Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Nov 2007.
paper-boyce-riddle07.pdf (415KB)
James K. Boyce and Matthew E. Riddle, Cap and Dividend: A State-by-State Analysis,
Amherst, MA: Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts,
August 2009.
paper-boyce-riddle.pdf
(800KB)
Julie E. Cohen, Copyright, Commodification, and Culture: Locating the Public
Domain,” In Lucie Guibault and P. Bernt Hugenholtz, editors, The Future
of Public Domain: Identifying the Commons in Information Law, Amsterdam, Holland:
Kluwer Law International, 2006, pp. 121-166.
paper-cohen.pdf
(972KB)
Joe Cortright, “Portland’s Green Dividend,” Chicago, IL: CEOs
for Cities, July 2007.
paper-cortright.pdf
(188KB)
Susan Crawford, Network Rules, New York, NY: Benjamin N. Cardozo School of
Law, Jacob Burns Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, Working Paper 159, 2006.
paper-crawford.pdf
(376KB)
John Farrell, Wind and Ethanol: Economies and Diseconomies of Scale, Minneapolis,
MN: Institute for Local Self-Reliance, July 2007.
paper-farrell.pdf
(836KB)
Michel Gelobter et al., The Soul of Environmentalism: Reconsidering
Transformational Politics in the 21st Century, Oakland, CA: Redefining
Progress, 2005.
paper-gelobter-et-al.pdf
(256KB)
Beth Goldberg and Paige Brown, Auctioning Carbon Dioxide Permits:
A Business Friendly Climate Policy, Oakland, CA: Redefining Progress,
September 2001.
paper-goldberg-brown.pdf
(192KB)
Lee Hamilton et al., The Genetic Age: Who Owns the Genome, Princeton,
NJ: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, September
24, 2002.
paper-hamilton-et-al.pdf
(108KB)
J. Andrew Hoemer, A Golden Opportunity: Strengthening California’s
Economy Through Climate Policy, Oakland, CA: Redefining Progress,
January 31, 2006.
paper-hoemer.pdf
(367KB)
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Jim Kleinschmit, “Biofueling Rural Development: Making the Case for Linking
Biofuel Production to Rural Revitalization,” Carsey Institute, Policy
Brief No. 5, Durham, NH: University of New Hampshire, winter 2007.
paper-kleinschmit.pdf
(200KB)
Hannah Laurison and Nella Young, Ending Injustices that Cause Hunger and Environmental
Destruction, Oakland, CA: Institute for Food and Development Policy, Development
Report No 20, February 2009.
paper-laurison-young.pdf (760KB)
Peter Levine, “Can the Internet Rescue Democracy? Toward an On-line Commons,”
In Ronald Hayduk and Kevin Mattson, editors, Democracy’s Moment: Reforming
the American: Political System for the 21st Century, Lanham, MD, Rowman &
Littlefield, 2002, pp. 121-137.
paper-levine.pdf
(285KB)
James Love and Tim Hubbard, “Paying for Public Goods,”
In Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, editor, Code: Collaborative Ownership and
the Digital Economy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005, pp. 207-229.
paper-love-hubbard.pdf
(156KB)
Sascha D. Meinrath and kc claffy, The COMMONS Initiative: Cooperative Measurement
and Modeling of Open Networked Systems, Washington, DC and San Diego, CA: New
America Foundation and San Diego Supercomputer Center, April 2008.
paper-meinrath-claffy.pdf (250KB)
J.P. Ross, Developing State Solar Photovoltaic Markets: Riding the Wave to Clean
Energy Independence, Washington, DC: Center for American Progress, January 2008.
paper-ross.pdf (3.2MB)
J. H. Snider, “Who Owns the Airwaves? Four Theories of Spectrum
Property Rights,” Washington, D.C.: New America Foundation,
Public Assets Program, Spectrum Series #3, April 2002.
paper-snider.pdf
(85KB)
Peter Suber, “Open Access in the United States, In Neil
Jacobs, editor, Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic
Aspects, Oxford, England: Chandos Publishing, 2006.
paper-suber.pdf
(56KB)
REPORTS
James Barksdale and Reed Hundt, Co-Chairs, Digital Future Initiative:
Challenges and Opportunities for Public Service Media in the Digital
Age, A Report of the Digital Future Initiative Panel, Washington,
DC: New America Foundation, December 15, 2005.
report-barksdale-hundt.pdf
(880KB)
Peter Barnes, Jonathan Rowe, and David Bollier, The State of the Commons,
Point Reyes Station, CA: Tamales Bay Institute, 2006.
report-barnes-et-al.pdf
(4.2MB)
David Bollier and Jonathan Rowe, The Commons Rising, Point Reyes Station,
CA: Tamales Bay Institute, 2006.
report-bollier-rowe.pdf
(2.8KB)
Majora Carter and Omar Freilla, with David M. Muchnick, Stephen A. Hammer, Joan
Byran, and E. Gail Suchman, The Oak Point Eco-Industrial Park: A Sustainable
Economic Development Proposal for the South Bronx, Bronx, NY: Sustainable South
Bronx and Green Worker Cooperatives, 2007.
report-carter-freilla.pdf
(1.7MB)
Conor Casey, et al., Valuing Common assets for Public Finance in Vermont, Burlington,
VT: Vermont Green Tax and Common Assets Project, November 2008.
report-casey-et
al.pdf (1.5MB)
Reid Ewing, Keith Bartholomew, Steve Winkelman, Jerry Waters, and Don Chen,
with Barbara McCann and David Goldberg, Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban
Development and Climate Change, Washington, DC and College Park, MD: Urban Land
Institute (with Smart Growth America, the Center for Clean Air Policy, and National
Center for Smart Growth, October 2007.
report-ewing-et-al.pdf
(3.9MB)
Leslie Hatfield and Destin Joy Layne, “Cultivating the Web: High Tech
Tools For the Sustainable Food Moment,” New York, NY: Eat Well Guide,
2008.
report-layne-hatfield.pdf (2.2MB)
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Helen Payne Watt, Common Assets: Asserting Rights to Our Shared Inheritance.
Washington, D.C. and Oakland, CA: Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED)
and Rethinking Progress (RP), 2000.
report-watt.pdf
(536KB)
World Health Organization, Public health: Innovation and Intellectual
Property Rights, Report of the Commission on Intellectual Property
Rights, Innovation and Public Health. Geneva, Switzerland: WHO Press,
April 2006.
report-WHO.pdf
(1.2MB)
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