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• - A forum to exchange information on publications and websites of potential interest to the readers of the journal, Information Research, an open access, refereed, electronic journal covering the information field generally.
  
• - An introduction to IP law as it relates to Open Content (PDF).
  
• - The purpose of the Linart project is twofold. First, to advance the use of Linux-based systems and other free, open source software for artists; and second, to define, encourage, and promote free art and a community of those who make it.
  
• - Mission is to lead the open source content movement in higher education, modeling textbook content after the open source software movement.
  
• - An effort to create a complete K-12 curriculum and set of course materials that are "Free" in the GNU sense.
  
• - Reason for being: "facilitate the prolific creation of freely available, high-quality, well-maintained Content." Content = everything but software.
  
• - Read entire books online which were published under various forms of "open" copyright.
  
• - Article by Magnus Cedergren discusses models involving the driving forces in a theoretical open content value chain.
  
• - International non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging the growth and development of free content, multilingual, wiki-based projects, and to providing the full content of those projects to the public free of charge.
  
• - Goal: create a distributed global repository of production knowledge of past, present and future processes, materials, products.
  
• - Article on the first steps of an experimental, open-source/open content project that will "give a learner... free access to educational materials that can be readily manipulated to suit her individual learning style".
  
• - Free travel guide based on contributed open content.
  
• - Free lecture notes, articles, and resources pertaining to leveraging Open Source technologies and the classics in business.
  
• - The Berkman Center's open law public forum, an experiment in public, online drafting of legal argument; bringing the concepts of open source to legal argument. Current cases: Open DVD (defending DeCSS and fighting the Digital Millennium Copyright Act); El