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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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MSNBC: From Betamax to Napster - http://www.msnbc.com/modules/DigitalMusic/
Timeline of the evolution of the "right to copy" from 1992 to February 12, 2001. |
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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/news/politics/0,1283,50658,00.html
"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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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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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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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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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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Now Is The Time! - http://www.promo.net/pg/cplea97/
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. |
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CopyrightGuru - http://www.copyrightguru.com
Provides links and resources on copyright, trademark, Internet and entertainment law. |
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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. |