Wikipedia:School and university projects/Open Source Culture/Mediography

This mediography is a compilation of various media items pertaining to Open Source Culture ideas and topics. The mediography is divided into Art & Music, Books, Reports, Transcripts & Recordings, and Websites. It was originally drafted for School and university projects/Open Source Culture a graduate seminar at the Columbia University School of the Arts.

Art and Music
Anonymous/unknown artists. Jay-Z Construction Set. Software for remixing Jay-Z’s Black Album.Annotation

2 Many DJs (Steven and David Dewaele) AKA Soulwax.]BBC article Wired article on open source Record Label

Beastie Boys, The. Paul's Boutique (1989)
 * RollingStoneReview
 * Index of samples and references in the album
 * An enthusiast's commentary on the album
 * Recent news article on the album's relevance
 * Decision of Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals on "Bridgeport Music Inc. v. Dimension Films
 * Wired Magazine Interview
 * Annotation

Cosic, Vuk. "The Cut-Up Page."
 * Documenta Done
 * "The Cut-Up Page."
 * Annotation

[http://www.illegal-art.org/audio/grey.html DJ Danger Mouse. The Grey Album]

Etoy, Toywar

Foreman, Richard Ontological-Hysteric TheatreAnnotation

Mee, Charles Open Source Theater: the (re)making project.

Forsythe, Tom Food Chain Barbie. Phototographs, 1999.

[http://www.headmap.org/index/headmapt/headmaps/gysinbur.html Headmap. "Gysin, Burroughs, Cut-Ups and Knowledge Management"]

Loop Tracks Annotation

Mandiberg, Michael. AfterSherrieLevine.com.

Miller, Paul D. AKA Dj Spooky That Subliminal Kid Rhythm Science. Cambridge, MIT Press, 2004. CD is bundled with book. Various tracks available online

Oswald, John Plunderphonics

Saint-Saens, Camille. Le carnaval des animaux (1886)
 * Annotation

Tuxdog. Paper Rad

Articles
Berry, D M (2004). Internet Ethics: Privacy, Ethics and Alienation - An Open Source Approach., The Journal of Internet Research, Vol 14 (4)

Berry, D M & Moss, G (2004). The LibreSociety.org Manifesto, N/E Neuro: Networking Europe, Neuro Conference Proceedings, Munich: Germany, Feb 26th-29th 2004. available from http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_02/libre_manifesto/

Bezroukov, Nikolai. "Open Source Software Development as a Special Type of Academic Research (Critique of Vulgar Raymondism)." First Monday, 4(10), October 1999. http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_10/bezroukov/index.html

Biddle, Peter, Paul England, Marcus Peinado, and Bryan Willman. "The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution." http://www.nothing.org/osc/DarknetAndTheFutureOfContentDistribution.htm pdf

"Bollywood caught in copycat wrangle." CNN.com International. http://www.barbarataylorbradford.com/cnn.htm link

Burt, Jeb. "CU Cracks Down on Illegal Copying." Columbia Spectator, October 13, 2004. Vol 128. http://www.columbiaspectator.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/10/13/416cc00516b34?in_archive=1

Cohen, Kathleen, James Elkins, Marilyn Aronberg Lavin, Nancy Macko, Gary Schwartz, Susan L. Siegfried and Barbara Maria Stafford. "Digital Culture and the Practices of Art and Art History." The Art Bulletin, Vol. 79, No. 2 (June 1997) 187-216. stable URL Annotation

Cohen, Julie E., Mark A. Lemley. "Patent Scope and Innovation in the Software Industry." California Law Review, Vol 89:1, 2001. pdf Annotation

Critical Art Ensemble. "Utopian Plagiarism, Hypertextuality, and Electronic Cultural Production." Critical Issues in Electronic Media, Simon Penny, ed. New York: SUNY Press, 1994. http://college.hmco.com/english/amore/demo/ch5_r4.html pdf Annotation

Doctorow, Cory. "Microsoft Research DRM Talk." http://craphound.com/msftdrm.txt http://www.nothing.org/osc/DRMtalkByCoryDoctorow.htm

Forsythe, Tom. "Food Chain Barbie & the Fight for Free Speech." National Coalition Against Censorship. August 10, 2004. http://www.ncac.org/issues/foodchainbarbie.htm Annotation
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Garnett, Joy. "Steal This Look." Intelligent Agent Vol. 4 No. 2, Spring 2004. http://www.intelligentagent.com/archive/Vol4_No2_ip_garnett.htm pdf

Ginsburg, Jane C. "The Concept of Authorship in Comparative Copyright Law", 52 DePaul Law Review 1063 (2003)
 * Annotation

Goldsmith, Kenneth. "The Bride Stripped Bare: Nude Media and The Dematerialization of Tony Curtis." http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/goldsmith/nude.pdf pdf Annotation

GNU Project. "Free Software Definition." http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Annotation

Graham, Jefferson. "Summer tours help bands pay bills." USA Today. August 6, 2004. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-08-05-bela-cover2_x.htm

Hunter, Dan, "Culture War." August 10, 2004. http://ssrn.com/abstract=586463 pdf

Ippolito, Jon. "Why Art Should Be Free." http://detritus.net/contact/rumori/200204/0197.html http://www.nothing.org/osc/WhyArtShouldBeFree.htm

Jordan, Ken, and Paul D. Miller. "Freeze Frame--Sound in the Era of Digital Networks." http://www.kenjordan.tv/Freeze%20Frame.doc http://www.nothing.org/osc/FreezeFrame.htm

Krauss, "The Originality of the Avant-Garde" in The Originality of the Avant-Garde, Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1986, c1985. annotation

Landes, William M., "Copyright, Borrowed Images and Appropriation Art: An Economic Approach" (December 2000). ‘’U Chicago Law & Economics’’, Olin Working Paper No. 113. http://ssrn.com/abstract=253332 [] [|Annotation]

Larkin, Brian. "Bollywood comes to Nigeria." ‘’Samar 8.’’ Winter/Spring, 1997. http://www.samarmagazine.org/archive/article.php?id=21

Larkin, Brian. "Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds: Nigerian Video and the Infrastructure of Piracy." ‘’Public Culture.’’ 16.2, 289-314, 2004. PDF

Larkin, Brian. "Looking at Piracy." Social Science Research Council. http://www.ssrc.org/programs/ccit/publications/brian.larkin.rtf

Lee, Felicia R. "Graham Legacy, On The Stage Again." New York Times, September 29, 2004. - http://nothing.omweb.org/modules/wakka/MarthaGraham - Annotation

Leung, Simon with Janet A. Kaplan. "Pseudo-Languages: A Conversation with Wenda Gu, Xu Bing, and Jonathan Hay. " Art Journal 58.3, 86-99. Autumn 1999. link Annotation

Lohr, Steve. &#8220;In Competitive Move, I.B.M. Puts Code in Public Domain.&#8221; New York Times, August 3, 2004. link

Miller, Paul D. AKA Dj Spooky That Subliminal Kid. “Uncanny/Unwoven.” http://www.djspooky.com/articles/uncanny.html http://www.nothing.org/osc/Uncanny-Unwoven.htm

MIT Open Source Articles and Papers

Moglen, Eben. “Freeing the Mind: Free Software and the Death of Proprietary Culture.” http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/maine-speech.html pdf

Moglen, Eben. "The dotCommunist Manifesto". Accessed on 9/08/04. pdf link

Noronha, Frederick. "Pakistan Government Looks to the Linux Users Group." 13 July 2002. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6204

Open Source Initiative. "The Open Source Definition." http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php

Oswald, John. "Plunderphonics, or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative.” Wired Society Electro-Acoustic Conference, Toronto, 1985. Original version: http://www.plunderphonics.com/xhtml/xplunder.html pdf More on Plunderphonics: http://www.fact-index.com/p/pl/plunderphonics.html

Pareles, Jon. "No fears -- Laptop DJs have a feast." New York Times, September 10, 2004. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/10/arts/music/10INTE.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5090&en=1754341400ebc367&ex=1252555200&partner=rssuserland

Prelinger, Rick. “Remarks on Appropriation Art” Rick Prelinger http://www.othercinema.com/otherzine/otherzine6/pprelinger.html Archived at http://www.nothing.org/osc/RemarksOnAppropriationArt.htm

Porcello, Thomas. 1991. "The Ethics of Digital Audio-Sampling: Engineers' Discourse." Popular Music 10(1):69-84.

Quin, Douglas. “Digital Sampling, the Mimetic Impulse and Appropriation in Modern Art.” http://www.nothing.org/osc/SamplingMimeticImpulseAppropriation.htm

Savran, David. "The Wooster Group, Arthur Miller and 'The Crucible'" The Drama Review 29(2):99-109. Annotation

Smith, Roberta. “When One Man's Video Art Is Another's Copyright Crime.” New York Times, May 6, 2004. Review of Jon Routson’s exhibition of video shot in cinemas. http://www.nothing.org/osc/WhenOneMansVideoArtIsAnothersCopyrightCrime.htm

Sundaram, Ravi. "Recycling Modernity: Pirate electronic cultures in India." The Sarai Reader 2001. http://www.sarai.net/journal/pdf/093-099%20(piracy).pdf archived pdf]

Thompson, Anne. "Appeals Court Ruling May Shift Power to Writers" ' 'The New York Times' ', October 13, 2004. Annotation

Wineburg, S. “Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts.” Accessed at http://www.pdkmembers.org/members_online/members/orders.asp?action=results&t=A&desc=Historical+Thinking+and+Other+Unnatural+Acts&text=&lname_1=&fname_1=&lname_2=&fname_2=&kw_1=&kw_2=&kw_3=&kw_4=&mn1=&yr1=&mn2=&yr2=&c1= Annotation

Yardley, William. "Coincidence Sets of Storm Over Erotic Work." ' 'The New York Times' ', October 12, 2004. Annotation

Books
Baudrillard, Jean. The System of Objects. New York, Verso, 1996. Annotation

Bettig, Ronald V. Copyrighting Culture: The Political Economy of Intellectual Property. Boulder: Westview Press, 1996.

Buchloh, Benjamin H.D. Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000.

Buskirk, Martha. The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. Annotation

Collingwood, R. G. The Principles of Art (New York: Oxford University Press, 1958). See the closing chapter.

Debord, Guy. The Society of Spectacle (1968). Cambridge, MIT Press, 1995. Annotation

De Duve, Thierry. Pictorial Nominalism: On Marcel Duchamp's Passage from Painting to the Readymade. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991.

DiBona, Chris, Sam Ockman, and Mark Stone, Eds. Open Sources: Voices of the Open Source Revolution. Sebastopol, O’Reilly and Associates, 1999.

Dillard, Annie. Mornings Like This: Found Poems. New York: Perennial, 1996.

Foster, Hal, ed. The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture. New York: The New Press, 1998. Annotation

Galloway, Alexander R. Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization. Cambridge, MIT Press, 2004.

Greene, Rachel. "Internet Art". London, Thames & Hudson, 2004. Annotation

Johns, Adrian. The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Lessig, Lawrence. The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World. New York: Vintage Books, 2001.

Lessig, Lawrence. Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. New York: The Penguin Press, 2004. This book is also available online in many formats at http://free-culture.org/remixes.

Litman, Jessica. Digital Copyright. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2001.

Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. Cambridge, MIT Press, 2002. Annotation

Miller, Paul D. AKA Dj Spooky That Subliminal Kid. Rhythm Science. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004. See also Peter Halley’s remix at http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-books/mediawork Annotation

Moody, Glyn. Rebel Code: The Inside Story of Linux and the Open Source Revolution. New York: Basic Books, 2001.

Murphie, Andrew and John Potts. Culture and Technology. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Patterson, Lyman Ray. Copyright in Historical Perspective. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1968.

Raymond, Eric S. The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary. Sebastopol: O’Reilly and Associates, 1999. Available online in several formats at http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/

Samuels, Edward. The Illustrated Story of Copyright. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. Annotation Annotation

Schwartz, Hillel. The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996.

Stallman, Richard M. and Joshua Gay, Ed. Free Software Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman. Boston: GNU Press, 2002.
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Taylor, Brandon. Collage: The Making of Modern Art. London: Thames & Hudson, 2004.

Thompson, N. and Sholette, G., Ed.The INTERVENTIONISTS. User's Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004. Annotation

Vaidhyanathan, Siva. Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity. New York: New York University Press, 2001. Annotation

Wark, McKenzie. A Hacker Manifesto. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.

Williams, Sam. Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman’s Crusade for Free Software. Sebastopol: O’Reilly and Associates, 2002.

Reports
UK Houses of Parliament, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, Postnote report on "Open Source Software", No. 242, Jun 2005.
 * http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/POSTpn242.pdf

Committee on Intellectual Property Rights and the Emerging Information Infrastructure, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council. The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age. Washington: National Academies Press, 2000.
 * http://www.nap.edu/html/digital_dilemma/

Digital Connections Council of the Committee for Economic Development. “Promoting Innovation and Economic Growth: The Special Problem of Digital Intellectual Property.” March 2004. Annotation
 * http://www.ced.org/docs/report/report_dcc.pdf
 * Archived at http://www.nothing.org/osc/SpecialProblemOfDigitalIP.pdf

Free Expression Policy Project, The. "A Preliminary Report on the Chilling Effects of 'Cease and Desist' Letters"
 * http://www.fepproject.org/commentaries/ceaseanddesist.html

Free Expression Policy Project, The. "’The Progress of Science and Useful Arts’: Why Copyright Today Threatens Intellectual Freedom”
 * http://www.fepproject.org/policyreports/copyright2dexsum.html
 * Archived at http://www.nothing.org/osc/WhyCopyrightThreatensIntellectualFreedom.pdf

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. "Copyright in an Electronic Environment (Guidelines from Consortium of College & University Media Centers)."
 * http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/copyright1.html

Transcripts and Recordings
Atari Games Corp. v. Nintendo of America, 975 F.2d 832 (Fed.Cir.1992) Annotation
 * http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/cases/atarivnintendo.html

Barnes v. Glen Theatre Inc., 501 U.S. 560 (1991)
 * http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/tmkeck/Cases/Barnes1991.html

Burrow-Giles v. Sarony, 111 U.S. 53 (1884)
 * http://www.kentlaw.edu/e-Ukraine/copyright/cases/burrow-giles_v_sarony.html

Chicago Public Radio. Program on piracy and intellectual property. July 23, 2003.
 * Main page: http://www.wbez.org/audio_library/od_rajul03.asp
 * Audio stream: http://www.wbez.org/audio_library/ram_2003b/odyssey/od_030723.ram

Cohen v. California, 43 U.S. 15 (1971)
 * http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/comm/free_speech/cohen.html

Eldred v. Ashcroft, 239 F.3d 372 (2003) Annotation
 * http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/01-618.ZS.html

Share/Share Alike: A Panel Discussion featuring Prof. Lawrence Lessig Vol. 4 No. 2, Spring ‘04 archived
 * http://www.intelligentagent.com

Lessig, Lawrence. “Copyright in the Digital Age.” Transcript of online discussion. Washingtonpost.com, April 14, 2004.
 * Archived at http://www.nothing.org/osc/LessigOnFreeCulture.htm

Lessig, Lawrence. “Free Culture” Flash version of PowerPoint presentation with synchronized audio from lecture.
 * http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig

Music and Theft: Technology, Sampling and the Law (A symposium at Duke Law School 03.30.2002)
 * http://www.law.duke.edu/musicandtheft

Sega Enterprises v. Accolades, Inc., 977 F.2d 1510 (9th cir. 1992) Annotation


 * http://www.maushammer.com/segavsaccolade.html

SFMOMA. “CopyArt: The Impact of Copyright on New Media Art.” Transcript of panel discussion. September 24, 2003.
 * Archived at http://www.nothing.org/osc/SFMOMA_Panel_CopyART.htm

Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc., 464 U.S. 417 (1984) Annotation
 * http://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/464_US_417.htm

Shulgin, Alexei. “Open Sources in Net Art.” Transcription of lecture at Mikro e.V., Berlin, Germany.
 * http://www.mikro.org/Events/OS/ref-texte/shulgin.html
 * Archived at http://www.nothing.org/osc/OpenSourcesInNetArt.htm

Web Sites
ArtWarez.
 * website

Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, The
 * website
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Center for the Public Domain.
 * website

Chilling Effects. Annotation
 * website

Columbia University Plagiarism Project Annotation
 * website

Columbia Undergraduate Listing of Professor Ability.Annotation
 * http://culpa.info/

Connexions.
 * website

Creative Commons.
 * website

Downhill Battle - Music Activism.
 * website

First Monday Annotation
 * website

Free Culture.
 * website

Free Expression Policy Project, The.
 * website

Internet Archive, The.
 * website

Levitated Design & Code. "Levitated." Annotation
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LOCA Records (Copyleft record label)
 * website

Media Trips.
 * website

MIT OpenCourseWare.
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N.A.G. (Network Auralization for Gnutella).
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OpenSource.org
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Prelinger Archives.
 * website

Project Gutenberg.
 * website

Sarai Reader 2001: The Public Domain.
 * website

Save Betamax - anti-INDUCE act website.
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Source Forge. Annotation
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Swarthmore Coalition for the Digital Commons.
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RespectCopyrights.
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UbuWeb.
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Videri.
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Wikipedia.
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Textz.
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