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Montreal group of writers filing a lawsuit against publishers who used the freelancers' work on
electronic databases and the web without compensation.
http://www.axess.com/users/jackr/erdc/frame3.htm
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CopyrightGuru
Provides links and resources on copyright, trademark, Internet and entertainment law.
http://www.copyrightguru.com
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The Revolt of the Poor - The Demise of Intellectual Property?
With the advent of new media, e-publishing, self-publishing, and differential patent enforcement
and pricing - intellectual property rights may be in trouble.
http://samvak.tripod.com/nm047.html
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MultiReg
News, information, discussions and guides related to intellectual property.
http://www.multireg.com/
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USA Copyright
Provides copyright services and information, including official copyright applications.
http://usacopyright.org
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Center for Electronic Law
Contains information about DMCA and other electronic copyright law as well as specific information
about the Audio Home Recording Act and how P2P music and downloading music relates to that law.
http://www.electroniclaw.org
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The Eric Eldred Act
A proposition to instate tiny tax designed to move unused copyrighted work into the public domain.
Frequently asked questions, petition, ways to help, and news.
http://www.eldred.cc/
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The Eric Eldred Act
Article on two U.S. Representatives proposing the Public Domain Enhancement Act, addressing the
need to reform copyright laws to permit abandoned works to enter the public domain.
http://www.eldred.cc/eablog/000092.html
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ProtectFairUse.org
Campaign sponsored by 321 Studios, manufacturer of DVD-copying software, to protect US consumers'
fair use rights to make back-up copies of their DVDs.
http://www.protectfairuse.org/
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Christians and the Copyright Laws
Criticisms of copyright laws from a Christian perspective.
http://www.workbench.net/~jack/copyright.html
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Legal Theorist, The
Profile of Paula Samuelson, law professor who has spent 15 years fighting what she sees as
overzealous and innovation-stifling expansion of copyright laws in the high-tech arena. [Wall
Street Journal]
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB1020884132662876320,00.html
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The Campaign to Have Copyright Interests Trump Technology and Consumer Rights
Speech by Gary Shapiro, President of the Consumer Electronics Association, to the Optical Storage
Symposium.
http://www.techlawjournal.com/intelpro/20020917.asp
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Copyright as Cudgel
Recent expansion of copyright law threatens research and education, destroys rights, and
impoverishes public discourse. [Chronicle of Higher Education]
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i47/47b00701.htm
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Intellectual Property and Copyright Ethics
Academic paper. General introduction to the subject of copyright ethics.
http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/alfino/dossier/Papers/COPYRIGH.htm
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Guiding the Path of Intellectual Property
"It is important to rediscover the roots of intellectual property to understand why SSSCA is
too much, and the DMCA already went too far." Editorial and reader comments. [kuro5hin]
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/3/8/1465/50261
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DigitalConsumer.org
Organization for protecting fair-use rights in the digital world. Advocates a Consumer Technology
Bill of Rights including the rights to time-shift and space-shift media and to make backup copies.
http://www.digitalconsumer.org/
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Can the World Be Copyrighted?
"Two treaties taking effect this spring would expand the reach of controversial American
legislation designed to regulate the Internet." By Brad King. [Wired]
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50658,00.html
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Canada to Hold Public Hearings on Digital Copyright
"It looks like the Canadian government is going to hold public hearings on the Copyright Act
reform in progress." News and discussion forum. [Slashdot]
http://slashdot.org/yro/02/02/19/1916245.shtml
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Products and Critique: The Use of Copyrighted and Trademarked Products
An essay exploring the use of copyrighted and trademarked products for the purposes of critique
(whether or not the product is the target of the critique).
http://www.transientwaters.net/gallery/howdoilook/critique.html
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Buy DVDs and Games Abroad - and Break the Law
"British consumers will be on the wrong side of the law for the first time if they buy
overseas DVDs or computer games 'unauthorised' for the UK and play them on their PCs at home."
By Drew Cullen. [Register]
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/23814.html
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I Am Gonna Copy
Poll to vote on the proposition that everything that can be copied should be free, with no
copyright and no intellectual property. Also includes links to articles and opinions.
http://www.iamgonnacopy.com/
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cluebot.com: Denmark Enacts Anti-Piracy Search and Seizure Law
The U.S. government, acting on behalf of American firms, has successfully pressured Denmark to
change its laws. A document unearthed by Cluebot.com describes how the new law allows physical
searches for supposed copyright infringements "without prior notification."
http://www.cluebot.com/articles/01/06/26/042210.shtml
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Knowledge Indignation
Investigative documentary by Australia's Radio National about a boycott of scientific journals that
will not make their archives available to the public without restrictions or Licenses to Read.
Audio in RealMedia format and transcript.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/stories/s345514.htm
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Perpetual Copyright
Explains how the perpetual copyright policy manifested in the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension
Act of 1998 has made it impossible to preserve art.
http://everything2.com/?node=sonny+bono+copyright+extension+act
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Washington Post: Copyright, copywrong
The old copyright rules apply, and figuring out just how is giving heartburn to lawyers the world
over.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/tech/analysis/copyright/intprop.htm
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Politics of Copy Protection Technology, The
Paper by Damian Yerrick about "under the table" laws such as the Bono Act and the DMCA
sponsored by corporate lobbyists that dilute the public's right to publish.
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=952746
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Artists Rights Society
Provides visual artists with support for copyright clearance and monitors the use and potential
abuse of artists' rights.
http://www.arsny.com/
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Digital Copyright
Book by Jessica Litman about the collision between expectations of freedom of expression and
copyright law.
http://www.msen.com/~litman/digital-copyright/
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Eurorights
Web based lobby group, campaigning against overbroad digital copyright laws in Europe.
http://eurorights.org/
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Copyright and Globalization in the Age of Computer Networks
Transcript of a talk by Richard Stallman, on how copyright law no longer protects the public
interest, and how it might be curtailed in different ways for different kinds of works.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/copyright-and-globalization.html
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ZDNet: Technology and the corruption of copyright
Civil disobedience in the face of copyright laws promotes the democratic ideal that information is
a public good thereby sustaining the Internet community's founding belief that "information
wants to be free." By Joshua S. Bauchner.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2770541,00.html
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MSNBC: From Betamax to Napster
Timeline of the evolution of the "right to copy" from 1992 to February 12, 2001.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/DigitalMusic/
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Jewish Law and Copyright
Rabbi Israel Schneider gives his interpretation of Mosaic law and copyright issues.
http://www.jlaw.com/Articles/copyright1.html
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TypeRight
A lobbying group formed by typeface designers, targeting copyright protection for the design of
fonts in the United States, bringing copyright law in line with other western countries.
http://typeright.org
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Copy Catfight
How intellectual property laws stifle popular culture, and violate freedom of speech. About old
works being kept in obscurity, and new ones being silenced. Article by Jesse Walker, Reason
magazine.
http://www.reason.com/0003/fe.jw.copy.html
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Primer on the Digital Millennium
What the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Copyright Term Extension Act mean for the library
community, by Arnold P. Lutzker.
http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/primer.html
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Copyrights?
The author shows how impractical copyrights are, and how many ethical questions they raise.
http://sysx.org/vsv/copyriot.html
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Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright
How the Internet and free software render copyrights useless, dooming them much as capitalism
doomed slavery.
http://old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/anarchism.html
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Read Them and Weep
Under the guise of protecting copyrights, several new legal measures threaten readers
http://simson.net/clips/98.Globe.05-07.Read_them_and_weep.htm
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Now Is The Time!
Argument against keeping books under copyright when they should have gone to the Public Domain
under the provisions of prior copyright law. From Project Gutenberg.
http://www.promo.net/pg/cplea97/
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