• Studies on the use and growth of open/free licensing models
• Critical analyses of the role of Creative Commons or similar models in promoting a Free Culture
• Building innovative technical, legal, organizational, or business solutions and interfaces between the sharing economy and the commercial economy
• Modeling incentives, innovation and community dynamics in open collaborative peer production and in related social networks
• Economic models for the sustainability of commons-based production
• Successes and failures of open licensing
• Analyses of policies, court rulings or industry moves that influence the future of Free Culture
• Regional studies of Free Culture with global lessons/implications
• Lessons from implementations of open/free licensing and distribution models for specific communities
• Definitions of openness and freedom for different media types, users and communities
• Broader sociopolitical, legal and cultural implications of Free Culture initiatives and peer production practices
• Free Culture, Memory Institutions and the broader Public Sector
• Open Science/ Research/ Education
• Cooperation theory and practice, dynamics of cooperation and competition
• Methodological approaches for studying the characteristics, history, impact or growth of Free Culture

It is tremendously exciting to see the commons attracting this research interest. The workshop will be held October 23 at Harvard. Submissions are due August 9.

Also see the last year’s post on the First Interdisciplinary Research Workshop on Free Culture.