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General Articles
- Big
Myths about copyright explained by Brad Templeton. This
is a list of 10 misconceptions of about copyright rights
- A
Bill of Writes column by Nicholas Negroponte and Michael
Hawley, originally published in Wired Magazine. Almost every
book published in the United States during the last 15 years
has been produced digitally. The Bill of Writes is a digital
deposit act, requiring that each item submitted to the Library
of Congress be accompanied by its digital source in order
to obtain copyright. This will lead to the quicker building
of digital libraries which will benefit future generations
- Common
Scenarios of Fair Use Issues: Posting Materials on Course
Management Systems From the Copyright Management Center
at Indiana University/Purdue University
- Copyright
and Authors' Rights by Mike Holderness for the International
Federation of Journalists Freelance conference in Amsterdam.
Statement urging a recognition of "authors' rights" by the
United States and the UK
- Copyright
and Fair Use in the Digital Age: Q&A with Peter Lyman.
Educom Review
- Copyright
and Preservation: A Serious Problem in Need of a Thoughtful
Solution by Robert L. Oakley
- Copyright
Basics From the US Copyright Office
- Copyright FAQ From the US Copyright Office
- The
Copyright Grab by Pamela Samuelson, a visiting professor
of law at Cornell Law School and a Fellow of EFF. Published
in Wired. Examines the White Paper on Intellectual Property
and the National Information Infrastructure and how enactment
of its views would rescinded traditional user rights to
browse, share, or make private noncommercial copies of copyrighted
works and lead to an invasion of user privacy. Argues that
the White Paper is not a good idea from a user perspective
- Copyright
Law for the Digital Library Framework of Rights and
Exceptions, by Kenneth D. Crews Indiana School of Law (PDF
Document)
- Crash
Course in Copyright From the University of Texas Fair
Use and Copyright Center
- The
Economy of Ideas: A framework for rethinking patents and
copyrights in the Digital Age (Everything you know about
intellectual property is wrong) by John Perry Barlow, a
retired cattle rancher, a lyricist for the Grateful Dead,
and co-founder and executive chair of EFF. Published in
Wired magazine
- The
Educator's Guide to Copyright and Fair Use From tech
Learning a resource for teachers, technology coordinators
and administrators.
- Fair
Use Check List From Indiana and Purdue Universities'
Copyright Management Center
- Fair Use
of Copyrighted Works Electronic version of a pamphlet
published by CETUS: Consortium for Educational Technology
in University Systems. Includes information on fair use
as it relates to higher education, illustrative scenarios,
and information on obtaining permissions.
- Fair
Use in the Electronic Age: Serving the Public Interest
this Working Document is an outgrowth of discussions among
a number of library associations regarding intellectual
property, and in particular, the concern that the interests
and rights of copyright owners and users remain balanced
in the digital environment.
- Fair
Use Materials and Articles From the University of Texas
Fair Use and Copyright Site
- Franklin
Pierce Law Center Publications on Intellectual Property
Several discussions of intellectual property by Professor
Thomas G. Field, Jr.
- How Much
of Someone Else's Work May I Use Without Asking Permission?
The Fair Use Doctrine - Part II By Lloyd L. Rich.
- Intellectual
Property Committee on Copy Control Systems, DRAFT Institutes
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Position Statement
on Copy Control Systems
- Intellectual
Value by Esther Dyson, Originally published in Wired
Magazine, discusses how the Net changes the economics of
content and strategies to take advantage of these changes
- Is
Copyright Dead on the Net? by Lance Rose, published
in Wired Magazine
- Judicial
Response: A Safe Harbor in the "Fair Use" Doctrine
- The
Law of Fair Use and the Illusion of Fair Use Guidelines
by Kenneth Crews, from the Ohio State Law Journal
- Legal and Policy Responses to the Disappearing 'Teacher Exception,' Or Copyright Ownership in the 21st Century University by Elizabeth Townsend of the University of Arizona. Publsihed in the University of Minnesota Law School's Minnesota Intellectual Property Review in 2003 (vol. 4, issue 2, page 209).
- Libraries
and Copyright Resources compiled by Indiana University
Purdue University Copyright Management Center
- Library Copyright Liability and Pirating Patrons . . . and What You Can Do About It By Mary Minow, May 2001
- A Magna Carta
for the Knowledge Age by Esther Dyson, George Gilder,
George Keyworth and Alvin Toffler
- Negativland's
Essay on Fair Use
- Promoting
Open Access: Developing New Strategies for Managing Copyright
and Intellectual Property by Mary M. Case, Director,
Office of Scholarly Communication, ARL, and Prudence S.
Adler, Associate Executive Director, Federal Relations and
Information Policy, ARL
- The
Purpose of Copyright By Lydia Pallas Lauren, Northwestern
School of Law Lewis & Clark College
- RISKS
of guessing at Fair Use by Mich Kabay
- Some
Thoughts on the Political Economy of Intellectual Property:
A Brief Look at the International Copyright Relations of
the United States David G. Post, Temple University
- University
Copy Centers: Do They Pass the Fair Use Test? From the
University of Texas Fair Use and Copyright site
- Washington
State University Copyright Office Copyright articles
and tests
- Whom
Do You Trust? Op Ed by Michigan Law's Roberta J. Morris
and Jonathan Franklin
- Where
Does the Free Online Scholarship Movement Stand Today? by
Peter Suber, Professor of Philosophy, Earlham College, and
Editor Free Online Scholarship Newsletter
- Whose
article is it anyway? Copyright and intellectual property
issues for researchers in the 90s, Notices of the AMS,
January 1996. By Ann Okerson
- Who
Will Own Your Next Good Idea By Charles C. Mann, published
in Atlantic Monthly (September 1998)
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