E-SPEAIT Reading List

Back to the course page

This is not mandatory reading but rather a changing collection of available complementary materials relevant to the course (in the current version, mostly books about legal and philosophical aspects).

Note: over the years, some of the books that used to be available online (legally!) have disappeared for several reasons. Fortunately, there is the Internet Archive which has retained the original copies. A larger facelift for the whole course is planned for Summer 2022, a major update of literature is currently also in compilation.

Books

• BARNES, Peter. Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2006 https://www.boell.de/sites/default/files/capitalism_3.0_peter_barnes.pdf
• BENKLER, Yochai. The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006 https://www.benkler.org/Benkler_Wealth_Of_Networks.pdf
• BERRY, David M. Copy, Rip, Burn: The Politics of Copyleft and Open Source. Pluto Press 2008.
• BOLDRIN, Michele, LEVINE, David K. Economic and Game Theory Against Intellectual Monopoly. Cambridge University Press 2008. http://www.dklevine.com/papers/imbookfinalall.pdf
• BOLLIER, David. Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own. New Press 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20150805234228/http://www.viralspiral.cc/sites/default/files/ViralSpiral.pdf
• CASTELLS, Manuel, HIMANEN, Pekka. The Information Society and the Welfare State: The Finnish Model. Oxford University Press 2004.
• CASTELLS, Manuel. The Internet Galaxy. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press 2009
• COLEMAN, E. Gabriella. Coding Freedomː The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking. Princeton University Press 2013. https://gabriellacoleman.org/Coleman-Coding-Freedom.pdf
• FELLER, Joseph (ed) et al. Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software. MIT Press 2005.
• GOLDMAN, Ron, GABRIEL, Richard. Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy. Morgan Kaufman Publishers 2006. https://dreamsongs.com/IHE/IHE.html
• GRAHAM, Paul. Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age. O'Reilly 2004. Available also at http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
• HARMS, L. T. C. A Casebook on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights. 4th Edition. WIPO 2018. https://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo_pub_791_2018.pdf
• HIETANEN, Herkko, OKSANEN, Ville., VÄLIMÄKI, Mikko. Community Created Content: Law, Business and Policy. Turre Publishing 2007. https://turre.com/images/stories/books/webkirja_koko_optimoitu2.pdf
• HIMANEN, Pekka. The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age. Random House Inc. New York, 2001.
• von HIPPEL, Eric. The Sources of Innovation. Oxford University Press 1988. https://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/sources.htm
• von HIPPEL, Eric. Democratizing Innovation. The MIT Press 2005. https://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ1.htm
• KELTY, Christopher. Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software Duke University Press, 2008. https://twobits.net
• KINSELLA, N. Stephan. Against Intellectual Property. Ludwig von Mises Institute 2008. https://cdn.mises.org/Against%20Intellectual%20Property_2.pdf
• KOCH, Stefan. Free/Open Source Software Development. Idea Group, 2005
• LEVY, Steven. Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution. New York, NY: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 2001. Two first chapters are available at https://www.gutenberg.org/etext/729
• LESSIG, Larry. Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. The Penguin Press 2004. https://web.archive.org/web/20050403102258/http://www.free-culture.cc/freeculture.pdf
• LESSIG, Larry. The Future of Ideas. Random House 2001. https://web.archive.org/web/20110716220507/https://www.the-future-of-ideas.com/download/lessig_FOI.pdf
• LESSIG, Larry. Code v. 2.0. Basic Books, 2006. https://web.archive.org/web/20070702234418/https://pdf.codev2.cc/Lessig-Codev2.pdf
• LOCKE, Christopher et al. The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual. Perseus Books Group 2001. https://cluetrain.com/book/index.html
• MARTIN, Brian. Information Liberation: Challenging the Corruptions of Information Power. Freedom Press, London 1999. https://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/98il/
• MCLEOD, Kembrew. Freedom of Expression: Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativity. Doubleday/Random House 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20050218231334/https://kembrew.com/documents/mcleod-freedomofexpression3.pdf
• MOODY, Glyn. Rebel Code: Inside Linux and the Open Source Revolution. Perseus Publishing, Cambridge MA 2001
• ROWLAND, Diane, KOHL, Uta, CHARLESWORTH, Andrew. Information Technology Law. 5th edition. Routledge 2017
• STALLMAN, Richard Matthew. Free Software, Free Society. Ed. Joshua Gay. GNU Press 2002. http://www.gnu.org/doc/fsfs3-hardcover.pdf
• TAVANI, Herman T. Ethics and Technology: Ethical Issues in an Age of Information and Communication Technology. Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons 2007.
• THEOBALD, Robert. The Rapids of Change: Social Entrepreneurship in Turbulent Times. Knowledge Systems Inc. 1987.
• TORVALDS, Linus, DIAMOND, David. Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary. First Edition, Harper-Collins 2001
• WILLIAMS, Sam. Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software. O'Reilly 2002. https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/
• WILLINSKY, John. The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship. MIT Press 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20070614030450/https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/willinsky/TheAccessPrinciple_TheMITPress_0262232421.pdf
• WYNANTS, Marleen, CORNELIS, Jan. How Open is the Future? Economic, Social and Cultural Scenarios inspired by Free & Open-Source Software. CrossTalks, VUB Brussels University Press 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20070613191227/https://crosstalks.vub.ac.be/publications/howopenisthefuture/crosstalks_book1.pdf
• O'Reilly Open Books

Articles and shorter writings

• BENKLER, Yochai. Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm. https://www.benkler.org/CoasesPenguin.html
• BERNERS-LEE, Timothy. In Defence of Net Neutrality. https://webfoundation.org/2017/06/opinion-in-defence-of-net-neutrality-sir-tim-berners-lee/
• HIMANEN, Pekka. Challenges of the Global Information Society. report for the Committee for the Future in Parliament of Finland 2004. https://web.archive.org/web/20110720175616/https://www.eduskunta.fi/efakta/vk/tuv/challenges_of_the_globalinformationsociety.pdf
• MOGLEN, Eben. Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright. First Monday, Vol. 4, Issue 8, 1999. https://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_8/moglen/index.html
• POYNDER, Richard. The Basement Interviews. https://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/03/basement-interviews.html
• RAYMOND, Eric Steven. The Cathedral and the Bazaar. http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
• RAYMOND, Eric Steven. How to become a Hacker. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
• SALUS, Peter. The Daemon, the Gnu, and the Penguin. A History of Free and Open Source Software. http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=20051013231901859
• SDForum. The Future of Commercial Open Source. Think Tank Summary Report 2006. https://lwn.net/images/pdf/OpenSourceThinkTank2006_FinalReport.pdf

Films

• Revolution OS. Wonderview Productions 2001 http://www.revolution-os.com/ (unfortunately, not freely available)
• Steal This Film. League of Noble Peers 2006/2007. https://www.stealthisfilm.com (available legally as a torrent)
• Good Copy, Bad Copy. Rosforth 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20070623220617/http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/download (available legally as a torrent, via Internet Archive - the original site has been taken down)

Various pages

• Creative Commons. https://www.creativecommons.org
• Directory of Open Access Journals. https://www.doaj.org
• Electronic Frontier Foundation. https://www.eff.org
• Foundation for Free Internet Infrastructure. https://www.ffii.org
• Free Art License. https://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en/
• Free Software Foundation. https://www.fsf.org
• Jargon File. http://www.catb.org/jargon/
• MIT OpenCourseWare. https://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
• Open Source Initiative. https://www.opensource.org
• Stanford Libraries. Copyright & Fair Use. https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/

Back to the course page