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- A Politics Of Intellectual Property: Environmentalism for the Net? by James Boyle - Wordy but well-thought-out article asserting that intellectual property laws need to be reduced, and that this should be accomplished by political machination much like the environmental movement uses.
www.wcl.american.edu/pub/faculty/boyle/intprop.htm
- A Primer On the Ethics of "Intellectual Property" - This primer provides a general framework for freeing any information covered under copyright and patent laws.
www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/fmp/copying_primer.html
- Against Intellectual Property - A page comprised primarily of links to information freedom sites, including books, music, and software, from an Anarchy Home Page.
www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ctb/anarchy/intelprop.html
- 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.
www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/95psa.html
- Copyright Protection Is for Dinosaurs - fortune.com columnist Stewart Alsop explains why patents, copyrights, and trademarks are outdated and worse than useless.
cgi.pathfinder.com/fortune/technology/alsop/1999/04/26/index.html
- 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.
library.thinkquest.org/26658/cgi-bin/2-1.cgi
- 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]
www.freeipx.org
- Information Liberation: Against Intellectual Property - A chapter from the book Information Liberation, written by Brian Martin.
danny.oz.au/free-software/advocacy/against_IP.html
- 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).
tipping.selfpromotion.com
- Intellectual Property Issues - An impressive list of links to articles concerning intellectual "property" issues, from all sides.
www.negativland.com/intprop.html
- Intellectual Property Rights Overview - The W3C's take on intellectual property rights in the Information Age.
www.w3.org/IPR
- 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.
groups.yahoo.com/group/ipfuture
- IP Matters - A pro-IP publication devoted to intellectual property matters. Includes features, interviews, research reports and analysis, and IP statistics.
www.derwent.com/ipmatters
- 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.
libr.org/Juice/issues/vol3/LJ_3.35.sup.html
- Mid-Atlantic Infoshop - Against Intellectual Property - A page critical of copyrights, trademarks, and intellectual property.
www.infoshop.org/aip.html
- 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.
www.negativland.com/fairuse.html
- Proposal for a Free Unix - A proposal from 1993 for a free unix.
www.redhat.com/knowledgebase/otherwhitepapers/whitepaper_freeunix.html
- Roundtable - 98.09 - An Atlantic Unbound roundtable on the future of intellectual property and copyright law in the digital age
www.theatlantic.com/unbound/forum/copyright/intro.htm
- The GNU Manifesto - The last name in software freedom...this outlines the reasons that "Gnu's Not Unix" produces free software.
ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/GNUinfo/GnuManifesto
- 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.
www.weeklywire.com/ww/07-20-98/boston_feature_1.html
- 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.
www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
- University of Toronto Fraud - A PhD student alleges theft of intellectual property.
ca.geocities.com/uoftfraud
- Weaving Webs of Ownership - An impressive dissertation (still in the works) on intellectual property laws
www.soc.hawaii.edu/~future/dissertation/TOC.html
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