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» A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t Its Copyright?
   Opinion article arguing that copyrights, like physical property rights, should last forever. By Mark Helperin.
   http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/opinion/20helprin.html?ex=1337313600&en=3571064d77055f41&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

» 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.
   http://wiki.lessig.org/index.php?title=Against_perpetual_copyright

» 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.
   http://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.
   http://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]
   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/01/24/buy_dvds_and_games_abroad/

» 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]
   http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2002/02/50658

» 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.
   http://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.
   http://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]
   http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i47/47b00701.htm

» CopyrightGuru
   Provides links and resources on copyright, trademark, Internet and entertainment law.
   http://www.copyrightguru.com

» Digital Copyright
   Book by Jessica Litman about the collision between expectations of freedom of expression and copyright law.
   http://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.
   http://www.digitalconsumer.org/

» Electronic Rights Defence Committee
   Montreal group of writers filing a lawsuit against publishers who used the freelancers' work on electronic databases and the web without compensation.
   http://erdc.ca/

» 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]
   http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/3/8/1465/50261

» History of Copyright
   A very simple but authoritative reference for the history of copyrights back to the 14th Century with references.
   http://www.historyofcopyright.org/

» 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.
   http://www.iamgonnacopy.com/

» Infringement Nation: Copyright Reform and the Law/Norm Gap
   Essay on the growing gap between what technology allows us to do and what copyright tells us not to do, and how it turns ordinary people into serial infringers. By John Tehranian. [Utah Law Review]
   http://epubs.utah.edu/index.php/ulr/article/viewFile/7/11

» Intellectual Property and Copyright Ethics
   Academic paper. General introduction to the subject of copyright ethics.
   http://web02.gonzaga.edu/faculty/alfino/dossier/Papers/COPYRIGH.htm

» Jewish Law and Copyright
   Rabbi Israel Schneider gives his interpretation of Mosaic law and copyright issues.
   http://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.
   http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/stories/s345514.htm

» LA Times: Copyright This
   Dallas Weaver argues that intellectual property's social value may eventually trump copyright law.
   http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew-weaver20feb20,0,1675278.story

» Legal Theorist, The
   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]
   http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB1020884132662876320.html

» Michael Geist: 30 Days of DRM
   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.
   http://www.michaelgeist.ca/daysofdrm/

» 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.
   http://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.
   http://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.
   http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/primer_digital_millennium.pdf

» QuestionCopyright.org
   A weblog questioning the idea that copyright is necessary for the promotion of creative expression. Has a collection of interesting links.
   http://www.questioncopyright.org/

» Reevaluating Copyright: The Public Must Prevail
   Open source pioneer Richard Stallman discusses some problems with copyright restrictions.
   http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/reevaluating-copyright.html

» Slashdot - Canada to Hold Public Hearings on Digital Copyright
   Article on the Canadian government holding public hearings on the Copyright Act reform.
   http://slashdot.org/yro/02/02/19/1916245.shtml

» 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.
   http://www.techlawjournal.com/intelpro/20020917.asp

» The Revolt of the Poor - The Demise of Intellectual Property?
   With the advent of new media, e-publishing, self-publishing, and differential patent enforcement and pricing - intellectual property rights may be in trouble.
   http://samvak.tripod.com/nm047.html

» 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.
   http://www.typeright.org/

» Washington Post: Copyright, copywrong
   The old copyright rules apply, and figuring out just how is giving heartburn to lawyers the world over.
   http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/tech/analysis/copyright/intprop.htm