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Drafting the Gift Domain - An introduction to IP law as it relates to Open Content (PDF).
Free Curriculum Project - An effort to create a complete K-12 curriculum and set of course materials that are "Free" in the GNU sense.
Information Research Weblog - 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.
Open Content Alliance - Represents the collaborative efforts of a group of organizations from around the world. List of contributors, call to participate, FAQs, and press releases.
OpenContent - Reason for being: "facilitate the prolific creation of freely available, high-quality, well-maintained Content." Content = everything but software.
OpenText Project - Mission is to lead the open source content movement in higher education, modeling textbook content after the open source software movement.
O'Reilly Open Books Project - Read entire books online which were published under various forms of "open" copyright.
OSCOMAK: Open Source Community On Manufacturing Knowledge - Goal: create a distributed global repository of production knowledge of past, present and future processes, materials, products.
Wikimedia Foundation - 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.
World66 - Free travel guide based on contributed open content.


First Monday - Open Content and Value Creation - Article by Magnus Cedergren discusses models involving the driving forces in a theoretical open content value chain. (July 28, 2003)
Rice University's Connexions - 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". (December, 2002)