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Article comparing today's toughening of US intellectual property laws to help given to the US
shipping industry 30 years ago, resulting in even greater losses for US firms, higher prices, and
frustrated consumers.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.02/start.html?pg=2?tw=wn_tophead_5
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Giftfile Project
A project to enable authors of computer files containing nonproprietary intellectual works (free
music, literature, software) and their supporters (including fans, users) to participate in a gift
economy.
http://giftfile.org/
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Bunop's Intellectual Property Pencil
Irony exposing the limitations of a shrink-wrap license.
http://www.bunop.com
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Invention Development Group
Offers information on intellectual property agreements, patents, product licensing, and
trademarking.
http://www.thepatentguys.com
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The Register - Sneaky Cable Crypto Scheme in the Works
Article exposing that the cable television industry is moving to implement a copy protection scheme
that will allow movie studios and cable providers to control what viewers are able to record.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/15679.html
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A Politics Of Intellectual Property: Environmentalism for the Net? by James Boyle
Paper by James Boyle calling for reduction of intellectual property laws, to be achieved by
political machination inspired by the environmental movement.
http://www.law.duke.edu/boylesite/intprop.htm
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Intellectual Property at the National Academies
A guide to the Academies' documents and publications on Intellectual Property and a forum to
discuss ongoing work.
http://search.nap.edu/shelves/ip/
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Weaving Webs of Ownership: Intellectual Property in an Information Age
Debora J. Halbert's doctoral dissertation in progress concerning on intellectual property laws in
the West.
http://www.futures.hawaii.edu/dissertation/TOC2.html
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Copyright Protection Is for Dinosaurs
fortune.com columnist Stewart Alsop explains why patents, copyrights, and trademarks are outdated
and worse than useless.
http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=43916
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The GNU Manifesto
The last name in software freedom...this outlines the reasons that "Gnu's Not Unix"
produces free software.
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html
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Library Juice Copyright Issue
A supplement to the weekly e-zine Library Juice from September, 2000, devoted to the political and
philosophical issues of intellectual property, especially as they relate to libraries and the
internet.
http://libr.org/Juice/issues/vol3/LJ_3.35.sup.html
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The Mark is the Beast
An article describing the change in the usage of trademarks, and how it stifles our use of our own
language.
http://www.weeklywire.com/ww/07-20-98/boston_feature_1.html
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Proposal for a Free Unix
A proposal from 1993 for a free unix.
http://www.redhat.com/knowledgebase/otherwhitepapers/whitepaper_freeunix.html
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Intellectual Property Compensation Via Tipping
Article that proposes (with case studies) that tipping may be a viable compensation model for
intellectual property (such as music and books).
http://tipping.selfpromotion.com/
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Roundtable - 98.09
An Atlantic Unbound roundtable on the future of intellectual property and copyright law in the
digital age
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/forum/copyright/intro.htm
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Intellectual Property Issues
An impressive list of links to articles concerning intellectual "property" issues, from
all sides.
http://www.negativland.com/intprop.html
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IP Matters
A pro-IP publication devoted to intellectual property matters. Includes features, interviews,
research reports and analysis, and IP statistics.
http://www.derwent.com/ipmatters/
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University of Toronto Fraud
A PhD student alleges theft of intellectual property.
http://ca.geocities.com/uoftfraud/
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Free Intellectual Property Exchange (FreeIPX)
A news and discussion site dedicated to critical analysis of the use, abuse, and relevance of IP
Law. [Slash-style site]
http://www.freeipx.org
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Information Liberation: Against Intellectual Property
A chapter from the book Information Liberation, written by Brian Martin.
http://danny.oz.au/free-software/advocacy/against_IP.html
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Copyright: Guardian of Intellectual Property
Guide to computer ethics issues and current news includes an introduction to the problematic
copyright issues raised by digital media.
http://library.thinkquest.org/26658/cgi-bin/2-1.cgi
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IP Future
This group is organized to promote discussion of intellectual property laws worldwide. It is hoped
that a network of interested people can come together to begin discussing a future for intellectual
property law which balances the needs of people with the needs of intellectual property owners.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ipfuture/
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Negativland - Fair Use
An essay exploring whether artists, for profit or not, have the right to freely "sample"
from an already "created" electronic environment that surrounds them for use in their own
work.
http://www.negativland.com/fairuse.html
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Mid-Atlantic Infoshop - Against Intellectual Property
A page critical of copyrights, trademarks, and intellectual property.
http://www.infoshop.org/aip.html
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Brian Martin: Against intellectual property
An Australian university gives a powerful case against "intellectual property" laws.
Includes a long bibliography of books supporting the point.
http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/95psa.html
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A Primer On the Ethics of "Intellectual Property"
This primer provides a general framework for freeing any information covered under copyright and
patent laws.
http://www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/fmp/copying_primer.html
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Intellectual Property Rights Overview
The W3C's take on intellectual property rights in the Information Age.
http://www.w3.org/IPR/
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The Right to Read
Richard Stallman's famous parable about the Right to Read, and what will happen if intellectual
monopoly laws continue to grow.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
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