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Stanford Copyright Fair Use Center Lessig shows us that while new technologies always lead to new laws, never before have the big cultural monopolists used the fear created by new technologies, specifically the Internet, to shrink the public domain of ideas, even as the same...Legal information for the publishing community.
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Publishing Law Center: Copyright, trademarks, intellectual property, contracts, licensing, rights, PubLaw Update Newsletter Thanks for visiting our site. We hope you find this information useful and hope you'll bookmark us and come back often! Welcome to The Publishing Law Center! TM This site is devoted to providing quality information for the publishing community...Outline of the fundamental copyright principles applicable on the internet, by a Franklin Pierce Law Center professor Thomas G. Field, Jr..
http://www.fplc.edu/tfield/copynet.htm
Answers to common myths about copyright from Brad Templeton, former publisher at ClariNet Communications Corp.,
http://www.templetons.com/brad//copymyths.html
Organization supporting software authors who give up their copyright protections to allow the free distribution of software.
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html
Article explaining basic copyright concepts with links, examples, and additional information.
http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/sept97/cew2.htm
Endeavoring to provide real world, practical and relevant copyright information.
http://www.benedict.com/
Title 17- Copyrights- of the U.S. Code in its entirity from Cornell University
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/index.html
Australian copyright information
http://www.sentry.org
International convention for the protection of literary and artistic works.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/treaties/berne/overview.html
Directory of full-text copyright laws from around the world, in English, for review on line or free download.
http://www.unesco.org/culture/copy/
Information about copyrights in general, and as applied to the internet.
http://www.whatiscopyright.org/
An essay on the state of copyright protections.
http://www.open-spaces.com/article-v2n1-loren.php
Professor Landau of the Georgia State University College of Law comments on the Supreme Court case of The New York Times v. Tasini.
http://www.webreference.com/new/010628.html
Copyright information for internet authors and artists.
http://www.fplc.edu/tfield/cOpyNet.htm
Daily copyright and intellectual property headlines, and annotated intellectual property links.
http://www.copyrightnews.com/
Exploring the interaction of law with the visual, literary and performing arts.
http://www.artsandthelaw.com/
Law journal article by I. Trotter Hardy
http://law.richmond.edu/jolt/v1i1/hardy.html
A 16-step roadmap to copyright's most important exception. By Lloyd J. Jassin, a New York-based publishing attorney.
http://copylaw.com/new_articles/fairuse.html
Personal account of victory against British broadcasters, over a stolen idea for a television program.
http://www.copyright.theft.btinternet.co.uk
From Stanford University Law School.
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copy...and_Fair_Use_Overview/index.html
Basic information about copyright, FAQs, myths and links.
http://www.csusa.org/face/
Information relating to fair use, library exemptions, and recent copyright legislation, from The American Library Association.
http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/WOissues/copyrightb/copyright.htm
Course to help you learn about how ownership of copyrighted materials works, what is fair use and when and how to get permission to use someone else's materials.
http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/cprtindx.htm
Detailing the history of copyright law.
http://www.edwardsamuels.com/illustratedstory/index.htm
Copyright cases, library copyright guidelines, legal memos and Web resources for librarians
http://www.librarylaw.com
Copyright resources from Indiana & Purdue University.
http://copyright.iupui.edu/
From the U.S. Copyright Office, with links to full text of Senate and House bills.
http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/
Copyright in the news.
http://www.cdt.org/copyright/
From the Association of Research Libraries, includes information on current legislation.
http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/copytoc.html
Copyright and fair use in the realm of art and our cultural heritage.
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~csundt/copyweb/
Copyright, intellectual property rights and fair use resources.
http://www.vraweb.org/copyright.html
Information sharing initiatives, including copyright town meetings.
http://www.ninch.org/programs/exchange.html#cop
Annotated copyright policies of selected colleges and universities.
http://www.library.yale.edu/~okerson/copyproj.html#ucopy
Article from Peter D. Hirtle of Cornell University.
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/comm...and_analysis/2003_11_hirtle.html
A history of copyright in the United States.
http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/timeline.html
From the American Bar Association.
http://www.abanet.org/intelprop/currentleg.html
A forum devoted to discussing copyright, intellectual property rights, and public access to information in the digital age.
http://www.cni.org/Hforums/cni-copyright/about.html
A resource on copyright ownership for the higher education community.
http://www.nethics.umd.edu/copyown/
A forum which discusses and debates the many issues surrounding copyright and intellectual property in the digital age.
http://www.mediainstitute.org/colloquium/
From OCLC.
http://digitalcooperative.oclc.org/copyright/
Copyright chart.
http://www.copyright.cornell.edu...raining/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm
An exhaustive list of annotated links to patent, trademark and copyright information from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
http://www.eff.org/IP/
An organization of artists, musicians and writers, educating webmasters in copyright issues. Offers help for both intellectual property owners and webmasters.
http://www.theacap.com
A non-exclusive agent that administers licensing in Canada for the owners and exclusive holders of copyright in audio and music video recordings.
http://avla.ca
Series of articles written by piano teacher Martha Beth Lewis, Ph.D., of California, with links collected by the author.
http://www.serve.com/marbeth/music_copyright.html
Promotes informed debate and awareness of copyright issues in Ireland and around the world.
http://www.cai.ie
Policies adopted by Groton Public Schools in Mystic, Connecticut, based on a 1992 publication by Dr. Charles W. Vlcek of Washington, DC. Sections on photocopying and duplication of music and video as well as use of private databases.
http://groton.k12.ct.us/mts/egtoc.htm
Designed to deliver "real time" payments to rights owners, composers and songwriters, from all major collection societies.
http://www.cors.co.uk/
Provides information on European copyright developments.
http://www.eblida.org/ecup/
Resources for copyright, trademark, royalty collection and other intellectual property topics.
http://www.aracnet.com/~schornj/index.shtml
Reference site to help the ordinary person identify music and songs in the public domain.
http://www.pdinfo.com/
Information on copyright for songwriters, from Robert Carter, a Texas lawyer.
http://www.songrights.com/
Copyright information and resources.
http://web.mit.edu/ist/topics/security/copyright/
Copyright guidelines and resources.
http://www.lib.jmu.edu/org/mla/
Articles, FAQs and links to resources to register a copyright, transfer a copyright, understand fair use, obtain permissions or licenses, or use material in the public domain.
http://www.nolo.com/resource.cfm...5-455A-BC9F3D9C9C1F7513/310/276/
World Intellectual Property Organization articles, guidelines, meeting schedules and surveys related to the International Copyright protection.
http://www.wipo.int/copyright/en/
An annotated and periodically updated meta-list from the Copyright Implementation Manual, Groton Public Schools, Groton, CT.
http://groton.k12.ct.us/mts/pt2a.htm
Information on how to find copyright owners, as well as copyright articles and resources.
http://www.mpa.org/copyright/copyresc.html
Information about copyright issues, obtaining permission and other key areas relating to copyright regulations
http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/