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Artists Rights Society - http://www.arsny.com/
Provides visual artists with support for copyright clearance and monitors the use and potential abuse of artists' rights. |
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Copyright and Globalization in the Age of Computer Networks - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/copyright-and-globalization.html
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. |
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Reevaluating Copyright: The Public Must Prevail - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/reevaluating-copyright.html
Open source pioneer Richard Stallman discusses some problems with copyright restrictions. |
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Copyright as Cudgel - http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i47/47b00701.htm
Recent expansion of copyright law threatens research and education, destroys rights, and impoverishes public discourse. [Chronicle of Higher Education] |
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The Eric Eldred Act - http://www.eldred.cc/
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. |
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QuestionCopyright.org - http://www.questioncopyright.org/
A weblog questioning the idea that copyright is necessary for the promotion of creative expression. Has a collection of interesting links. |
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DigitalConsumer.org - http://www.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. |
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TypeRight - http://typeright.org
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. |
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Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright - http://old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/anarchism.html
How the Internet and free software render copyrights useless, dooming them much as capitalism doomed slavery. |
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Against Perpetual Copyright - http://wiki.lessig.org/index.php/Against_perpetual_copyright
Rebuttal to Mark Helperin's "A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t Its Copyright?", explicating deficiencies in his arguments for infinite copyright terms. |
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Digital Copyright - http://www.msen.com/~litman/digital-copyright/
Book by Jessica Litman about the collision between expectations of freedom of expression and copyright law. |
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Knowledge Indignation - http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/stories/s345514.htm
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. |
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The Revolt of the Poor - The Demise of Intellectual Property? - http://samvak.tripod.com/nm047.html
With the advent of new media, e-publishing, self-publishing, and differential patent enforcement and pricing - intellectual property rights may be in trouble. |
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The Eric Eldred Act - http://www.eldred.cc/eablog/000092.html
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. |
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Jewish Law and Copyright - http://www.jlaw.com/Articles/copyright1.html
Rabbi Israel Schneider gives his interpretation of Mosaic law and copyright issues. |
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The Campaign to Have Copyright Interests Trump Technology and Consumer Rights - http://www.techlawjournal.com/intelpro/20020917.asp
Speech by Gary Shapiro, President of the Consumer Electronics Association, to the Optical Storage Symposium. |
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I Am Gonna Copy - http://www.iamgonnacopy.com/
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. |
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Can the World Be Copyrighted? - http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2002/02/50658
"Two treaties taking effect this spring would expand the reach of controversial American legislation designed to regulate the Internet." By Brad King. [Wired] |
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CopyrightGuru - http://www.copyrightguru.com
Provides links and resources on copyright, trademark, Internet and entertainment law. |
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Buy DVDs and Games Abroad - and Break the Law - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/01/24/buy_dvds_and_games_abroad/
"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] |
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LA Times: Copyright This - http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew-weaver20feb20,0,1675278.story
Dallas Weaver argues that intellectual property's social value may eventually trump copyright law. |
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Guiding the Path of Intellectual Property - http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/3/8/1465/50261
"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] |
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Slashdot - Canada to Hold Public Hearings on Digital Copyright - http://slashdot.org/yro/02/02/19/1916245.shtml
Article on the Canadian government holding public hearings on the Copyright Act reform. |
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Politics of Copy Protection Technology, The - http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=952746
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. |
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Perpetual Copyright - http://everything2.com/?node=sonny+bono+copyright+extension+act
Explains how the perpetual copyright policy manifested in the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 has made it impossible to preserve art. |
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Copy Catfight - http://www.reason.com/0003/fe.jw.copy.html
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. |
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Michael Geist: 30 Days of DRM - http://www.michaelgeist.ca/daysofdrm/
Thirty daily postings highlights some of the exceptions and limitations that the government should include if a Canadian DMCA is introduced. Includes a wiki for user comments and contributions. |
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A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t Its Copyright? - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/opinion/20helprin.html?ex=1337313600&en=3571064d77055f41&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
Opinion article arguing that copyrights, like physical property rights, should last forever. By Mark Helperin. |
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Washington Post: Copyright, copywrong - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/tech/analysis/copyright/intprop.htm
The old copyright rules apply, and figuring out just how is giving heartburn to lawyers the world over. |
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Legal Theorist, The - http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB1020884132662876320.html
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] |