Copyright  

• LII Introduction to Copyright
• U.S. Copyright Office

My Work on Copyright

The Relations of Reproduction -- Times Literary Supplement
Foucault in Cyberspace
"Sold Out"  New York Times
Intellectual Property Policy On-Line: A Young Person's Guide
A Politics of Intellectual Property: Environmentalism for the Net?
A Theory of Law and Information: Copyright, Spleens, Blackmail and Insider Trading

Copyright Basics

Terry Carroll - Copyright FAQ and Copyright Resource Page

U.S. Copyright Office, FAQ

Copyright Basics: The Library of Congress

U.S. Copyright Statutes

Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act

Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Pending Copyright Legislation

17 USC Title 17 - Copyrights (Current as of 01/05/99)

Title 37 Code of Federal Regulations

Selected Copyright Cases

American Geophysical Union v. Texaco Inc. (fair use and scientific research)
Campbell v. Acuff Rose Music, Inc. ("Pretty Woman" parody/fair use)
Community For Creative Non-Violence v. Reid (work-for-hire)
Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co. / (another copy) (copyrighting "unoriginal" data compilations?)
Lotus Development Corp. v. Borland International, Inc. (look and feel --software interfaces)
Princeton University Press v. Michigan Document Services (fair use/course packets)
Procd, Inc. v. Zeidenberg (shrinkwrap licenses, contracts of adhesion and pre-emption)
Sony Corp. of Am. v. Universal City Studios, Inc. (video recorders, time-shifting and fair use)
U.S. v LaMacchia (failed attempt to use wire fraud statute as a method of copyright enforcement)

Copyright Treaties

U.S. Copyright Office, WIPO Copyright Treaty

U.S. Copyright Office, WIPO Documents

U.S. Copyright Office, WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty

U.S. Copyright Office, WIPO Document "Recommendations Concerning Databases"

U.S. Copyright Office URRA, GATT Amendments

Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (GATT/TRIPS)

EU Database Directive

Berne Convention, as revised

Highly Recommended Collections on Copyright

Berkman Internet Center at Harvard Law School

(General information, current cases, open code project, open law project, Napster, DVD/DeCSS)

Larry Lessig's Home Page

Yochai Benkler's Home Page

Pamela Samuelson's Home Page

Jessica Litman's Home Page

Julie Cohen's Home Page

Stanford University Libraries: Copyright & Fair Use

FindLaw: Legal Subjects: Intellectual Property: Copyright: Primary Materials - Laws and Government Documents

Articles/Speeches/Testimony/Performance Art

Negativland, Negativworldwidewebland
Negativland, Essay on Fair Use | For an example of Negativland's work you could try...
Negativland, The Forbidden Single "The Letter U and the Numeral 2"   (How many different intellectual property issues does this song present?)
Testimony from hearing on Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure
Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure (The White Paper)
The Debate on the White Paper
WIRED 4.01 - White Paper - By Pamela Samuelson
Public/Private and Copyright Reform in Cyberspace
Copyrights in Software
WIRED 2.03: The Economy of Ideas
SUL: Copyright & Fair Use: Articles and Publications
 

Copyright Organizations

Creative Incentives Coalition  (Arguments for extending copyright from a group whose members include Microsoft, the Motion Pictures Association, and the Business Software Alliance "The Creative Incentive Coalition represents individuals and organizations supporting copyright on the Internet and ratification of two new international treaties adopted at the World Intellectual Property Organization Diplomatic Conference in Geneva in 1996")
Digital Future Coalition (Arguments against the expansion of copyright. "The Digital Future Coalition (DFC) is committed to striking an appropriate balance in law and public policy between protecting intellectual property and affording public access to it. Representing over 2 million Americans, the DFC is the result of a unique collaboration of 39 of the nation's leading non-profit educational, scholarly, library, and  consumer groups, together with major commercial trade associations")
Union for the Public Domain ("Union for the Public Domain (UPD) is a non-profit citizens group. Our mission is to protect and enhance the public domain in matters concerning intellectual property.")
Copyright Clearance Center  ("is a not-for-profit organization created at thesuggestion of Congress to help organizations comply with U.S. copyright law..  through its collective licensing programs, CCC provides authorized users with a lawful means for making photocopies from its repertoire of more than 1.75 million titles.")