[Reader-list] Request for Peer Review - FOSS: Open Content

[Sunil Abraham]

Dear Friends,

Greetings from the IOSN! The International Open Source Network (IOSN) is
an initiative of APDIP and supported by the International Development
Research Centre of Canada. IOSN is a Centre of Excellence for Free/
Open Source Software (FOSS), Open Content and Open Standards in the
Asia-Pacific region. It is a network with a small secretariat based at
the UNDP Regional Centre in Bangkok and three centres of excellence –
IOSN ASEAN+3, IOSN PIC (Pacific Island Countries), and IOSN South Asia,
based in Manila, Suva and Chennai respectively. 

We are currently seeking public feedback on an IOSN primer titled FOSS:
Open Content by Lawrence Liang.

Lawrence Liang is a researcher with the Alternative Law Forum,
Bangalore. His key areas of interest are law, technology and culture,
the politics of copyright and he has been working closely with Sarai,
New Delhi on a joint research project Intellectual Property and the
Knowledge/Culture Commons. He is the author of two books, “Guide to Open
Content Licenses” and “The Public is watching: Sex, Laws and Videotapes”
and numerous articles on copyright, informal information economies and
the commons.

Contents Include: Contexualising Open Content, The Myths of Copyright, 
Expansion of Copyright Over The Years, How Copyright impedes Creativity
and Access to Knowledge, Emergence of the Open Content Paradigm,
Licenses and the Control of Copyright, The Public Domain, Open/
Collaborative Production and its Advantages, Characteristics of Open
Content Licenses, Survey of Open Content Projects, Policy Implications
and Limitations of Open Content.

You can download the files in OpenOffice.org, MS Office and PDF format
from here:-
http://www.iosn.net/open-content/foss-open-content-draft.doc
http://www.iosn.net/open-content/foss-open-content-draft.odt
http://www.iosn.net/open-content/foss-open-content-draft.pdf

We would be very grateful if you could send your feedback on Lawrence's
primer by 14th of October 2006. 

Thanking you in advance.

Sunil

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People who have provided peer review in the past include:
Dr. M Sasikumar
Dr. Nah Soo Hoe
Onno W. Purbo
Colin Charles
Phet Sayo 
Richard Stallman
Wooi Tong Tan 
Atsushi Yamanaka
Raul Zambrano 
Helena Loh
Gaurab Raj Upadhaya
Anousak Souphavanh
Arun M 
Dr. Sarmad Hussain 
Javier Sola 
Guntupalli Karunakar
Pramod Raghavendra
Will Smith
Bjorn Stabell
Jethro Cramp
Karl O. Pinc
Serge Marelli
Vorasone Dengkayaphichith
Vincent Berment
Alberto Escudero-Pascual
Eric S. Raymond
Aniruddha Shankar
Mahesh T. Pai
Kenneth Wong
Philippe Langlois
Dinesh Nair
Devdas Bhagat
Raj Mathur
Satyakam Goswami
Vimal Joseph
Simos Xenitellis
Seow Hiong Goh
Michael Mudd
Peter Chong