[Air-L] Fwd: [Icommons] Free Culture Research Workshop 2009

[jeremy hunsinger]

>
> The Free Culture Research Workshop 2009
> <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/5486> is looking for scholars  
> working on:
>
>        * Studies on the use and growth of open/free licensing models
>        * Critical analyses of the role of Creative Commons or similar
>          models in promoting a Free Culture
>        * Building innovative technical, legal, organizational, or
>          business solutions and interfaces between the sharing economy
>          and the commercial economy
>        * Modeling incentives, innovation and community dynamics in  
> open
>          collaborative peer production and in related social networks
>        * Economic models for the sustainability of commons-based  
> production
>        * Successes and failures of open licensing
>        * Analyses of policies, court rulings or industry moves that
>          influence the future of Free Culture
>        * Regional studies of Free Culture with global lessons/ 
> implications
>        * Lessons from implementations of open/free licensing and
>          distribution models for specific communities
>        * Definitions of openness and freedom for different media  
> types,
>          users and communities
>        * Broader sociopolitical, legal and cultural implications of
>          Free Culture initiatives and peer production practices
>        * Free Culture, Memory Institutions and the broader Public  
> Sector
>        * Open Science/ Research/ Education
>        * Cooperation theory and practice, dynamics of cooperation and
>          competition
>        * Methodological approaches for studying the characteristics,
>          history, impact or growth of Free Culture
>
> It is tremendously exciting to see the commons attracting this  
> research
> interest. The workshop will be held October 23 at Harvard. Submissions
> are due August 9. <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/5486>
>
> Also see the last year’s post on the First Interdisciplinary Research
> Workshop on Free Culture <http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/ 
> 8436>.
>
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