Copyright is a set of exclusive rights granted by governments to regulate the use of a particular expression of an idea or information. At its most general, it is literally "the right to copy" an original creation. In most cases, these rights are of limited duration. The symbol for copyright is ツゥ, and in some jurisdictions may alternately be written (c).
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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.
Meta Description: [ This paper shows why free software, far from
being a marginal participant in the commercial software market, is the
first step in the withering away of the intellectual property system. ]
Artists Rights Society - Provides visual artists with support for copyright clearance and monitors the use and potential abuse of artists' rights.
Meta Description: [ Artists Rights Society (ARS) represents the copyright
interests of most prominent 20th Century artists, among them Picasso, Matisse, Miro, Chagall,
Pollock, Rothko, O'Keefe, et al. ]
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]
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]
Meta Description: [ Get in-depth politics and legal news coverage including online privacy, Internet security, government regulations, censorship and free speech from Wired.com. ]
Christians and the Copyright Laws - Criticisms of copyright laws from a Christian perspective.
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.
Meta Description: [ REASON, a monthly magazine of free minds and free
markets, examines politics, culture, and ideas from a dynamic libertarian
perspective ]
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.
Copyright as Cudgel - Recent expansion of copyright law threatens research and education, destroys rights, and impoverishes public discourse. [Chronicle of Higher Education]
CopyrightGuru - Provides links and resources on copyright, trademark, Internet and entertainment law.
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Copyrights? - The author shows how impractical copyrights are, and how many ethical questions they raise.
Digital Copyright - Book by Jessica Litman about the collision between expectations of freedom of expression and copyright law.
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.
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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.
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]
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.
Intellectual Property and Copyright Ethics - Academic paper. General introduction to the subject of copyright ethics.
Jewish Law and Copyright - Rabbi Israel Schneider gives his interpretation of Mosaic law and copyright issues.
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.
Meta Description: [ On the eighth day God created the Internet so that eventually everyone would know everything But mankind didnt want to share and created new technologies to control the miracle of the Internet and ]
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]
MSNBC: From Betamax to Napster - Timeline of the evolution of the right to copy from 1992 to February 12, 2001.
MultiReg - News, information, discussions and guides related to intellectual property.
Meta Description: [ Domain Names, Trademarks, Copyrights and Patents ]
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.
Meta Description: [ free online electronic books, much of the world's great literature, Libri elettronici gratis, gran parte della grande letteratura mondiale., livres 駘ectroniques en ligne libres, une grande partie de la grande litt駻ature du monde, Elektronische Buecher gratis online, viel grosse Weltliteratur, L... ]
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.
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.
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.
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Read Them and Weep - Under the guise of protecting copyrights, several new legal measures threaten readers
Slashdot - Canada to Hold Public Hearings on Digital Copyright - Article on the Canadian government holding public hearings on the Copyright Act reform.
Meta Description: [ Canada to Hold Public Hearings on Digital Copyright -- article related to News and Your Rights Online. ]
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.
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The Eric Eldred Act - Article on two U.S. Representatives proposing the Public Domain Enhancement Act, addressing the need to reform copyright laws to permit abandoned works to enter the public domain.
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The Eric Eldred Act - A proposition to instate tiny tax designed to move unused copyrighted work into the public domain. Frequently asked questions, petition, ways to help, and news.
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.
Meta Description: [ In the mythology generated by capitalism to pacify the masses, the myth of intellectual property stands out. It goes like this: if the rights to intellectual property were not defined and enforced, commercial entrepreneurs would not have taken on the risks associated with publishing books, record... ]
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.
Meta Description: [ TypeRight's mission: to promote typefaces as creative works and to advocate their legal protection as intellectual property. ]
Washington Post: Copyright, copywrong - The old copyright rules apply, and figuring out just how is giving heartburn to lawyers the world over.
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