This is an ongoing, annotated bibliography of works (mainly articles) from a wide range of disciplines that are useful for those interested in intellectual property. It is our attempt to build a common knowledge base of works for those interested in stretching and questioning the boundaries of IP law and of the concept of property as a fixed and coherent set of rules.

This work began in the fall of 2006, and continued for the Spring of 2007, organized by Larisa Mann as a joint project with Keith Hiatt, and Josephine Njeri Mutugu, with the helpful supervision of Professor Molly Van Houweling of Boalt Hall Law School. All of our bios are available on this website.

We met weekly to read and discuss the articles as well as developments related to IP. While we have discussed and reviewed many law review articles, our plan was to extend the readings to other disciplines so as to realize the goal of the project, which is to infuse a deeper understanding of IP within a wider community of interest, and to generate new theories and practices from the juxtaposition of approaches across disciplines.

In the original schema, primary documents are ones that all of the original participants have read, secondary documents are ones that have been read by fewer than all of us, and are marked with an asterisk. "Comments" tend to be more personal and individual responses, while sub-pages (often titled "implications for..") tend to be more general and are more likely to have multiple contributors.

If an article is available online, there may be a link. Please note: if that link is no longer valid, it may still be available at archive.org.

Since the reading group is no longer in session, Larisa Mann has been adding to the bibliography and comments, to continue to expand the range of the bibliography, although most entries after May 2007 have only been read by one person. If anyone would like to suggest an article, book or other resources, please contact Larisa (whose email is her first name at berkeley dot edu)

This is a work in progress, and is subject to revision as we engage with articles chosen from a growing body of literature on the interdisciplinary significance of intellectual property. In addition we hope to learn from a larger community of readers and interested parties.