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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
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
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
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
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
Rabbi Israel Schneider gives his interpretation of Mosaic law and copyright issues.
www.jlaw.com
MSNBC: From Betamax to Napster
Timeline of the evolution of the "right to copy" from 1992 to February 12, 2001.
www.msnbc.com
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
Book by Jessica Litman about the collision between expectations of freedom of expression and copyright law.
www.msen.com
Provides visual artists with support for copyright clearance and monitors the use and potential abuse of artists' rights.
www.arsny.com
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
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
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
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
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