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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.
old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/anarchism.html
- Artists Rights Society - Provides visual artists with support for copyright clearance and monitors the use and potential abuse of artists' rights.
www.arsny.com
- 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]
www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/23814.html
- 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]
www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50658,00.html
- 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]
slashdot.org/yro/02/02/19/1916245.shtml
- Christians and the Copyright Laws - The problems with copyright laws, from a Christian perspective.
www.novagate.com/~jack/copyright.html
- 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."
www.cluebot.com/articles/01/06/26/042210.shtml
- 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.
www.reason.com/0003/fe.jw.copy.html
- 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.
www.gnu.org/philosophy/copyright-and-globalization.html
- Copyright as Cudgel - Recent expansion of copyright law threatens research and education, destroys rights, and impoverishes public discourse. [Chronicle of Higher Education]
chronicle.com/free/v48/i47/47b00701.htm
- Copyrights? - The author shows how impractical copyrights are, and how many ethical questions they raise.
sysx.org/vsv/copyriot.html
- Digital Copyright - Book by Jessica Litman about the collision between expectations of freedom of expression and copyright law.
www.msen.com/~litman/digital-copyright
- 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.
www.digitalconsumer.org
- Eurorights - Web based lobby group, campaigning against overbroad digital copyright laws in Europe.
eurorights.org
- 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]
www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/3/8/1465/50261
- 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.
www.iamgonnacopy.com
- Intellectual Property and Copyright Ethics - Academic paper. General introduction to the subject of copyright ethics.
www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/alfino/dossier/Papers/COPYRIGH.htm
- Jewish Law and Copyright - Rabbi Israel Schneider gives his interpretation of Mosaic law and copyright issues.
www.jlaw.com/Articles/copyright1.html
- 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.
www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/stories/s345514.htm
- Moral Rights of Authors in USA - Moral rights are a part of French law, which is not recognized in the USA. Essay by Dr. Standler, an attorney in Massachusetts.
www.rbs2.com/moral.htm
- MSNBC: From Betamax to Napster - Timeline of the evolution of the "right to copy" from 1992 to February 12, 2001.
www.msnbc.com/modules/DigitalMusic
- 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.
www.promo.net/pg/cplea97
- 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.
everything2.com/?node=sonny+bono+copyright+extension+act
- 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.
everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=952746
- 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.
www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/primer.html
- 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).
www.transientwaters.net/gallery/howdoilook/critique.html
- Read Them and Weep - Under the guise of protecting copyrights, several new legal measures threaten readers
simson.net/clips/98.Globe.05-07.Read_them_and_weep.htm
- 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.
www.techlawjournal.com/intelpro/20020917.asp
- The Viral Communications Anti-Copyright Policy - "If creativity is a field, copyright is the fence." -- John Oswald -- VirComm agrees with him, gives a few reasons and a list of similar sites.
www.cyborganic.com/people/vircomm/projects/anticopy
- 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.
typeright.org
- Washington Post: Copyright, copywrong - The old copyright rules apply, and figuring out just how is giving heartburn to lawyers the world over.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/tech/analysis/copyright/intprop.htm
- 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 communitys founding belief that "information wants to be free." By Joshua S. Bauchner.
www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2770541,00.html
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