* [http://www.law.cornell.edu/ Legal Information Institute] - a project started in 1992 by the Cornell University Law School that publishes the law online, for free. See the [http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution U.S. Constitution] and [http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text U.S. Code], etc.
* [http://copyfree.org/resources/references Copyfree], offers a collection of interesting articles, essays etc. about the problems of Copyright and offers an alternative copyright regime.
* [https://jolts.world/index.php/jolts JOLTS] (Journal of Open Law, Technology & Society): an international, broadly-scoped journal about openness still has an archive of their work online <ref>On 2022/09/07 they went inactive (archive mode). On 2019/10/29 The International Free and Open Source Law Review relaunched as the "Journal of Open Law, Technology & Society": an international, broadly-scoped journal about openness at Open Source Summit Europe. Previously it was the [http://www.ifosslr.org/ifosslr International Free and Open Source Software Law Review] is a collaborative legal publication aiming to increase knowledge and understanding among lawyers about Free and Open Source Software issues. Topics covered include copyright, licence license implementation, licence license interpretation, software patents, open standards, case law and statutory changes.</ref>
* Traditional treatment of the subject comes from the perspective of protecting against risks that the software is perceived to create. The Association of Corporate Counsel has this primer http://www.acc.com/legalresources/quickcounsel/quickcounsel_open_source_software.cfm While it does discuss many of the valid concerns that you would have as a corporation, it does nothing to address the proactive and beneficial things you can and should do to address the needs and benefits created by the collaboration economy.
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