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INFORMATION POLICY:
Copyright and Intellectual Property


IN THIS DOCUMENT:

Bibliography
Periodicals
Organizations and Copyright Collections
Copyright Policies: Selected Examples
International Instruments
Americas
Asia-Pacific
Europe

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SEE ALSO:

Web Directory: Intellectual Property
Digital Libraries: Cataloguing and Indexing of Electronic Resources
Digital Libraries: Projects and Resources
Information Policy: General Resources
Library and Information Science: General Resources
Library and Information Science: Policy Statements

Contributors:

Jan Stohner
Stephen Spencer
Nancy Brodie


BIBLIOGRAPHY

AAU. Report of the AAU Task Force on Intellectual Property Rights in an Electronic Environment.
Submitted to the AAU Presidents Steering Committee. April 4, 1994. Washington, DC.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/intllpty.txt

American Committee for Interoperable Systems. Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure
September 1, 1994.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/acis.txt

American Library Association, et. al. Fair Use in the Electronic Age: Serving the Public Interest.
This statement was developed by representatives of the following associations: American Association of Law Libraries, American Library Association, Association of Academic Health Sciences Library Directors, Association of Research Libraries, Medical Library Association Special Libraries Association. This document has also been endorsed by the Art Libraries Society of North America. January 18, 1995.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/fairuse.txt

Anonymous. Copyrighting Public Domain Programs.
URL: http://wiretap.area.com/Gopher/Library/Article/Publish/copyrite.doc

Anonymous. Some myths about intellectual property.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/ipmyths.htm

Arnett, Nick. The Internet and the Anti-net.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/antinet.htm

Association of Research Libraries. Intellectual Property: An ARL Statement of Principles.
Adopted by the ARL Membership, May 1994.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/arl-ip.txt

Barlow, John Perry. The Economy of Ideas - A framework for rethinking patents and copyrights in the Digital Age (Everything you know about intellectual property is wrong).
WIRED Issue 2.03 - March 1994.
URL: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.03/economy.ideas.html
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/jpbarlow.htm

Bellingham, Katy and Lavrencic, Tamara. Copyright Impediments to the Preservation of Australia's Documentary Heritage.
Published in vol. 12, no. 4 (November 1995) of the Australian Library Review.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/kbell1.htm

Berry, John W. Statement on behlaf of on behalf of the University Library, The University of Illinois at Chicago.
Working Group on Intellectual Property of the Information Policy Committee of the National Information Infrastructure Task Force. September 22, 1994.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/berj1.txt

Breslow, Jordan J. Copyright Law.
February, 1986.
URL: http://www.eff.org/pub/Intellectual_property/copyright_law.paper
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/breslow.txt

Brinson, J. Dianne and Mark F. Radcliffe. Intellectual Property Law Primer for Multimedia Developers.
URL: http://www.timestream.com/web/info/mmlaw.html
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/mmlaw.htm

British Copyright Council. Oral Response to the National Information Infrastructure Task Force on Intellectual Property.
22nd September 1994.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/bcc.txt

Burk, Dan L. Trademarks Along the Infobahn: A look at the Emerging Law of Cybermarks.
Richmond Journal of Law and Technology 1, April 10, 1995.
URL: http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~wwwbtb/book/chap9/refs.html
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/burd1.htm

Burk, Dan L. Transborder Intellectual Property Issues on the Electronic Frontier.
Stanford Law and Policy Review. Vol. 5, Copyright 1994.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/dburk2.txt

Chase, Mark E. Educators' Attitudes and Related Copyright Issues in Education: A Review of Selected Research 1980-1992.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/cham.txt

Coalition for Networked Information. R E A D I (Rights for Electronic Access to and Delivery of Information).
Draft. Negotiating Networked Information Contracts and Licenses. Prepared for CNI by: Robert Ubell and Mark Tesoriero, Robert Ubell Associates, November 15, 1994.
URL: http://www.cni.org/projects/READI/guide/

Coalition for Networked Information, et al. Proceedings: Technological Strategies for Protecting Intellectual Property in the Networked Multimedia Environment.
Coalition for Networked Information, Interactive Multimedia Association, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Summer 1994.
URL: http://www.cni.org/docs/ima.ip-workshop/

Consortium for Educational Technology for University Systems. Fair Use of Copyrighted Works.
URL: http://www.cetus.org/fairindex.html

Coyle, Karen. Copyright in the Digital Age.
URL: http://www.kcoyle.net/sfpltalk.html
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/coyk1.htm

Crews, Kenneth D. Copyright Law, Libraries, and Universities: Overview, Recent Developments, and Future Issues.
Working paper prepared for Association of Research Libraries. October 1992.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/rights.txt

Crews, Kenneth D. Copyright Law and the Doctoral Dissertation: Guidelines to Your Legal Rights and Responsibilities.
n.d.
URL: http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/copyright/papers/crews2.html
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/crews.txt

Decker, Jack. Christians and the Copyright Law.
URL: http://www.greatcontroversy.org/editorial/ed34-xnscopyrightlaw.html
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/decj1.htm

Denber, Michel, et. al. Intellectual Property Rights.
Panel session at SIGGRAPH 91. Association for Computing Machinery, 1991.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/denm.txt

Demac, Donna. Property Rights in the Electronic Dawn.
REFLEX. August/September 1994.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/demac2.htm

Demarest, Marc. Controlling Dissemination Mechanisms: The Unstamped Press and the 'Net.
n.d.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/demm1.htm

Dyson, Esther. Intellectual Value.
WIRED Issue 3.07 July 1995.
URL: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.07/dyson.html
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/dyson.htm

Ebersole, Joseph L. Response to Dr. Linn's paper "Copyright and Information Services in the Context of the National Research and Education Network."
n.d.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/ebersole.txt

Elias, Steve. Copyrights in Cyberspace.
Nolo Press, 2000.
URL: http://www.nolo.com/encyclopedia/articles/pct/nn197.html

Fernandez, Dennis. Understanding Intellectual Property Rights.
URL: http://www.batnet.com/oikoumene/dfIPRights.html
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/ferd1.htm

Field, Thomas G., Jr. Copyright for Computer Authors.
Franklin Pierce Law Center. 1995.
URL: http://www.fplc.edu/TFIELD/CopySof.htm

Field, Thomas G., Jr. Copyright in Visual Arts.
Franklin Pierce Law Center. 1995.
URL: http://www.fplc.edu/TFIELD/CopyVis.htm

Field, Thomas G., Jr. Intellectual Property: The Practical and Legal Fundamentals.
Franklin Pierce Law Center. 1995.
URL: http://www.fplc.edu/tfield/plfip.htm

Fisher, Janet. Copyright: The Glue of the System.
Journal of Electronic Publishing.
URL: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/works/fisher.copyright.html

Garfinkel, Simson L. Patently Absurd.
Wired, July 1994.
URL: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.07/patents.html
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/gars1.htm

Gassaway, Laura. When Works Pass Into the Public Domain.
URL: http://smartbiz.com/sbs/arts/ipi5.htm

Gerovac, Branko and Richard J. Solomon. Protect Revenues, Not Bits: Identify Your Intellectual Property.
n.d.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/gerovac.txt

Gloster, Deam M. and Kat McCabe. Making the New Media Deal.
Intellectual Property Magazine, July 1995.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/glod1.htm

Graham, Peter S. Intellectual Preservation and Electronic Intellectual Property.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/graham.txt

Greguras, Fred, Egger, Michael R. and Wong, Sandy J. Multimedia Content and the Super Highway: Rapid Acceleration or Foot on the Brake?
June 18, 1994.
URL: http://www.batnet.com/oikoumene/mmcopyright.html
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/mmcont.txt

Griswold, Gary N. A Method for Protecting Copyright on Networks.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/griswold.txt

Halbert, Debora. Computer Technology and Legal Discourse: The Potential For Modern Communication Technology To Challenge Legal Discourses Of Authorship and Property.
URL: http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/indices/title/halbert_abstract.html
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/hald.txt

Halbert, Debora. Weaving Webs of Ownership: Intellectual Property in an Information Age.
Dissertation draft.
URL: http://www.futures.hawaii.edu/dissertation/TOC2.html

Halbert, Martin. Copyright, Digital Media, and Libraries.
Recursive Reviews. The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 2, no. 1 (1991): 164-170.
URL: http://www.eff.org/pub/Legal/comp_law.biblio
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/halbert.txt

Hardy, Trotter. Contracts, Copyright, and Preemption in a Digital World.
Richmond Journal of Law and Technology, April 17, 1995.
URL: http://law.richmond.edu/jolt/v1i1/hardy.html
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/hari1.htm

Harper, Georgia. Copyright and the University Community.
The Office of General Counsel. The University of Texas System. August 1993. (90K)
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/texascp.txt

Index Stock Photography, Inc. Understanding Copyright Law.
URL: http://www.indexstock.com/pages/copyrite.htm

Information Technology Association of Canada. A Copy is a Copy: Copyright Issues and the Emerging Information Infrastructure.
February 1995.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/copy95en.htm

Interactive Multimedia Association. Testimony at the public hearing on "Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure".
Presented by Brian Kahin. September 22, 1994.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/ima.txt

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). Position paper on copyright in the electronic environment.
October 1996.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/V/ebpb/copy.htm

International Publishers Association. Position Paper on Libraries, Copyright and the Electronic Environment of the International Publishers Copyright Council (IPCC).
22 April 1996.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/ipa.txt

Jensen, Michael. Need-Based Intellectual Property Protection and Networked University Press Publishing.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/jensen.txt

Kahin, Brian. The Strategic Environment for Protecting Multimedia.
n.d.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/kahin.txt

Kahn, Robert E. Deposit, Registration and Recordation in an Electronic Copyright Mangement System.
n.d.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/kahn.txt

Kotlas, Carolyn. Computers and Copyrights: Bibliography.
Institute for Academic Technology (IRG-04). See URL below for definitive version.
URL: http://www.iat.unc.edu/guides/irg-04.html
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/irg-04.htm

Lanham, Richard A. A New Operating System for the Humanities.
Los Angeles: Dept. of English, UCLA, 1994.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/lanham1.htm

Lemley, Mark. Rights of Attribution and Integrity in Online Communication.
Journal of Online Law, June 1995.
URL: http://www.law.cornell.edu/jol/lemley.html
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/lemm1.htm
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/levm1.htm

Linn, R. J. Copyright and Information Services in the Context of the National Research and Education Network.
NIST. 1993.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/linr1.htm

Littman, Jessica. Revising Copyright Law for the Information Age.
Twenty-third Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, October 2, 1995.
URL: http://wwwsecure.law.cornell.edu/commentary/intelpro/litrvtxt.htm

Losey, Ralph. Practical and Legal Protection of Computer Databases.
URL: http://FloridaLawFirm.com/article.html

Loundy, David. E-LAW 4: Computer Information Systems Law and System Operator Liability.
URL: http://www.loundy.com/E-LAW/E-Law4-full.html

Loundy, David. Revising the Copyright Law for Electronic Publishing.
John Marshall Journal of Computer and Information Law, Vol. 14, October, 1995.
URL: http://www.Loundy.com/Revising.html
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/revising.txt

Lutzker, Arnold. Review and Analysis of the Report of the Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights, Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure (White Paper).
Prepared for the Association of Research Libraries, American Library Association, American Association of Law Libraries, Medical Library Association, Special Libraries Association. September 20, 1995.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/ipwp-rev.txt

Peter Lyman. Copyright and Fair Use in the Digital Age: Q and A with Peter Lyman.
Educom Review January/February 1995.
URL: http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewArticles/30132.html

Massarsky, Barry M. The Operating Dynamics Behind ASCAP, BMI and SESAC, The U.S. Performing Rights Societies.
n.d.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/massarsk.txt

MIT. Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier.
Course offered at MIT. A good reading list.
URL: http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/6095/

Moore, June B. Copyrighting Public Domain Programs.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/moore.txt

National Writers Union
Statement of Principles on Contracts between Writers and Electronic Book Publishers.
April 1994.
URL: http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/copyright/papers/NWU/NWU1.html
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/nwu1.htm

Recommended Principles for Contracts Covering Online Book Publishing.
September 1994.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/nwu2.htm

Negativland. Fair Use.
A band that has been involved in a copyright case involving musical samples.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/ngtvland.txt

Negroponte, Nicholas. Bill Of Writes.
WIRED Issue 3.05 - May 1995.
URL: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.05/negroponte.html
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/bowrites.htm

Nelson, Theodor Holm. A Publishing and Royalty Model for Networked Documents.
n.d.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/nelson.txt

Norderhaug, Terje and Oberding, Juliet M. Designing a Web of Intellectual Property.
First published as: Norderhaug, T. and Oberding, J. (1995). Designing a Web of Intellectual Property. In Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, 27 (6), pp. 1037-46.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/nort1.htm

Oakley, Robert L. Copyright and Preservation: A Serious Problem in Need of a Thoughtful Solution.
The Commission on Preservation and Access, September 1990.
URL: http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byauth/oakley/index.html
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/oakley.txt

Oakley, Robert L. Statement on Behalf of Several Library and Education Associations.
Working Group on Intellectual Property of the Information Policy Committee of the National Information Infrastructure Task Force. November 18, 1993.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/oakley2.txt

Oakley, Robert L. Statement on Behalf of American Association of Law Libraries and Several Other Library Organizations.
Working Group on Intellectual Property of the Information Policy Committee of the National Information Infrastructure Task Force. September 22, 1994.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/oakley1.txt

Okerson, Ann. Panel Discussion: Intellectual Properties Issues.
Association of Research Libraries.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/okerson.htm

Perritt,Henry W., Jr. Knowbots, Permissions Headers and Contract Law (networked intellectual property).
April 1993.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/perh2.txt

Perritt, Henry W., Jr. Permission Headers and Contract Law.
Villanova University School of Law, n.d.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/perritt.txt

Perrit Jr., Henry. Protection of Intellectual Property in the National Information Infrastructure.
Statement to the Working Group on Intellectual Property of the Information Policy Committee of the National Information infrastructure (NII) Task Force. c1993.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/perh1.txt

Phillips, Kenneth L. Meta-Information, The Network of the Future and Intellectual Property Protection.
n.d.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/phillips.txt

Picture Agency Council of America. The Copyright Commandments from PACA.
URL: http://www.indexstock.com/pages/pacacrl.htm

Richards, David. The Copyright Law and the Musician.
June 1990.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/ricd.txt

Saffo, Paul. It's the Context, Stupid.
Wired Online Service. 1994.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/safp1.htm

Samuelson, Pamela. The Copyright Grab.
WIRED Issue 4.01 - Jan. 1996.
URL: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.01/white.paper.html
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/samp3.htm

Samuelson, Pamela. Digital Media and the Law.
Communications of the ACM, October 1991.
URL: http://www.eff.org/pub/Intellectual_property/digital_media_and_law.paper
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/samp4.txt

Samuelson, Pamela. Is Information Property?
Communications of the ACM, March 1991.
URL: http://www.eff.org/pub/Intellectual_property/is_info_property.paper
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/samp6.txt

URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/samp2.txt

Samuelson, Pamela. First Amendment Rights for Information Providers.
Communications of the ACM, June 1991.
URL: http://www.eff.org/pub/Intellectual_property/first_amend_rights_for_info_providers.paper
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/samp5.txt

Samuelson, Paula. Legally Speaking: The NII Intellectual Property Report.
Communications of the ACM. December 1994.
URL: http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/copyright/papers/samuelson2.html
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/samp1.htm

Schlacter, Eric. Intellectual Property Protection Regimes in the Age of the Internet.
Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson and Tatum, Palo Alto, CA.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/sche1.htm

Shade, Leslie Regan. Copyright in the Digital Networked Environment.
Discussion Paper for Intellectual Property or Public Knowledge: A Roundtable Discussion of Copyright in the Nineties, Concordia University, April 7, 1995.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/shade01.htm

Shneiderman, Ben . Protecting rights in user interface designs.
Prepared for ACM SIGCHI Bulletin October 1990 special issue on copyright legal issues.
URL: http://wiretap.area.com/Gopher/Library/Article/Rights/userintf.cp
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/shnb.txt

Smallson, Fran. Soliciting From a Spectrum of Sources.
Intellectual Property Magazine, February 1995.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/smaf1.htm

Stallman, Richard M. Copywrong.
WIRED Issue 1.03 - Jul/Aug. 1993.
URL: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.03/1.3_stallman.copyright.html
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/star1.txt

Stallman, Richard. GNU'S Not UNIX.
Interview conducted by David Betz and Jon Edwards. Stallman discusses his public-domain UNIX-compatible software system July 1986.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/stallman.txt

Stanbury, William T. Aspects of public policy regarding crown copyright in the digital age.
Centre de recherche en droit public (CRDP). Crown copyright in Cyberspace. Montréal vendredi, 12 mai 1995.
URL: http://www.droit.umontreal.ca/crdp/en/equipes/technologie/conferences/dac/index.html

Sterling, J.A. Crown Copyright in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth Countries.
Crown copyright in Cyberspace Conference. CRDP, Montréal vendredi, 12 mai 1995.
URL: http://www.droit.umontreal.ca/crdp/en/equipes/technologie/conferences/dac/index.html

Strong, William S. Copyright in the New World of Electronic Publishing.
Presented at the workshop Electronic Publishing Issues II at the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) Annual Meeting, June 17, 1994, Washington, D.C.
Journal of Electronic Publishing.
URL: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/works/strong.copyright.html
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/strong.htm

Templeton, Brad. Copyright Myths FAQ.
URL: http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/temple.htm

Upthegrove, Luella and Roberts, Tom. Intellectual Property Header Descriptors: A Dynamic Approach.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/uptl.txt

USENET. misc.int-property
URL: news:misc.int-property

U.S. NTIA. Virtual Conference on Universal Access and Open Service.
November 1994.
Intellectual Property and the Information Infrastructure.
James M. Bower.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/jbower.txt
A Balancing Act: Copyright in the Electronic Age.
Carol C. Henderson.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/chender.txt

Various. Statement on Lawful Uses of Copyrighted Works.
This statement was developed by representatives of the following associations:
American Association of Law Libraries - American Library Association - Association of Academic Health Sciences Library Directors - Association of Research Libraries - Medical Library Association - Special Libraries Association
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/uses.htm

Zamparelli, Roberto. Copyright and Global Libraries: Going with the Flow of Technology.
URL: http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue2_11/zamparelli/index.html


PERIODICALS

Berkeley Technology Law Journal.
URL: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/journals/btlj/

Copyright, New Media Law & E-commerce News.
URL: http://collection.nlc-bnc.ca/100/201/300/copyright/index.html

Harvard Journal of Law and Technology.
URL: http://studorg.law.harvard.edu/jolt/

Intellectual Property Magazine.
URL: http://www.ipmag.com/

Journal of Electronic Publishing.
URL: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/

Richmond Journal of Law and Technology.
URL: http://www.urich.edu:80/~jolt/

Villanova Information Law Chronicle.
URL: http://www.cilp.org/vill.info.l.chron/

ORGANIZATIONS AND OTHER COPYRIGHT COLLECTIONS

American Intellectual Property Law Association.
URL: http://www.aipla.org/

American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).
URL: http://www.ascap.com/

Australian Copyright Council.
URL: http://www.copyright.org.au/

BMI (Broadcast Music Inc.)
URL: http://bmi.com/

Brooks and Kushman Intellectual Property Primer.
URL: http://www.spi.org/bkprime.pdf

Center for Advanced Study and Research on Intellectual Property.
URL: http://www.law.washington.edu:80/~casrip/

Coalition for Networked Information Copyright Mailing List Archive (CNI-COPYRIGHT).
URL: http://www.cni.org/Hforums/cni-copyright/

Computers and Law.
SUNY Buffalo School of Law student site.
URL: http://wings.buffalo.edu/law/Complaw/

Computers and Fair Use.
Stanford University Libraries. A very good resource.
URL: http://fairuse.stanford.edu/

CONFU: The Conference on Fair Use.
Stanford University Libraries. A very good resource.
URL: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/dcom/olia/confu/

Copyright and Universities.
URL: http://arl.cni.org/scomm/copyright/UniCopy.html

Copyright Clearance Center Online.
URL: http://www.copyright.com/

The Copyright Web Site.
An excellent collection of resources on intellectual property in the new media environment.
URL: http://www.benedict.com/

CyberLaw and CyberLex.
An educational service focusing on legal issues concerning computer technology.
URL: http://www.cyberlaw.com/

CyberSpace Law Center.
URL: http://cyber.findlaw.com/clcindex.htm

EFF Intellectual Property Issues and Policy Archive.
URL: http://www.eff.org/pub/Intellectual_property/

Galaxy Intellectual Property Law.
URL: http://www.galaxy.com/galaxy/Government/Law/Intellectual-Property-Law.html

Electronic Privacy Information Center.
Somewhat peripheral but some items may be of interest.
URL: http://www.epic.org/

Entertainment Law Resources for Film, TV and Multimedia Producers.
Mark Litwak. A number of interesting papers.
URL: http://www.laig.com/law/entlaw

Franklin Pierce Law Center.
URL: http://www.fplc.edu/fplchome.htm

Home Recording Rights Coalition.
URL: http://www.hrrc.org

The Institute for Learning Technologies.
Provides an excellent source for locating Internet information resources about copyright.
URL: http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/copyright/

The Intellectual Property Information Mall.
Franklin Pierce Law Center.
URL: http://www.piercelaw.edu/tfield/ipbasics.htm

Intellectual Property Owners (IPO).
An organization serving owners of patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets.
URL: http://www.ipo.org/

International Entertainment, Multimedia and Intellectual Property Law and Business Network.
URL: http://www.laig.com/law/intnet

Legal Information Institute.
Cornell University Law School. A great collection of legal materials. See the topical listings under "intellectual property."
URL: http://www.law.cornell.edu/

League for Programming Freedom.
An organization that opposes software patents and interface copyrights.
URL: http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/

MPLC - Motion Picture Licensing Corporation.
URL: http://www.mplc.com/

Music Publishers Association of the United States.
URL: http://www.mpa.org/

Movie Licensing U.S.A.
URL: http://www.movlic.com/

USF Intellectual Property Online.
URL: http://www.usfca.edu/ipla/

Software Publishers Association.
URL: http://www.spa.org/

The Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy.
URL: http://www.cilp.org/

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
URL: http://www.wipo.org/

WWW Multimedia Law.
URL: http://www.batnet.com/oikoumene/

COPYRIGHT POLICIES: EXAMPLES

American Library Association. 1986 ALA Model Policy. Library and Classroom Use of Copyrighted Videotapes and Computer Software.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/ala-1.txt

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ACM Interim Copyright Policy.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/acm1.htm

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Author's Guide to ACM Interim Copyright Policies.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/acm2.htm

EDUCOM. Using Software: A Guide to the Ethical and Legal Use of Software for Members of the Academic Community.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/educom.txt

TRLN. TRLN model copyright policy.
Model University Policy Regarding Faculty Publication in Scientific and Technical Scholarly Journals: A Background Paper and Review of the Issues. July 1993.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/trln.txt

University of Georgia Libraries. Copyright Policy.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/uga.txt

Wellesley College. Copyright Policy.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/wllsycpy.txt

INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS

Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (Paris Text 1971).
URL: http://www.law.cornell.edu/treaties/berne/overview.html

Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms.
URL: http://fletcher.tufts.edu/multi/texts/BH588.txt
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/bh588.txt

International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations.
URL: http://fletcher.tufts.edu/multi/texts/performance.txt
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/bh423.txt

Patent Cooperation Treaty/1970.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/patent.txt (108 K)
Regulations.
Washington, June 19, 1970.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/patentrg.txt (205 K)

Universal Copyright Convention (1971).
URL: http://fletcher.tufts.edu/multi/texts/UNTS13444.html
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/ucc.txt


AMERICAS

[Canada] ARVIC's Guide To Intellectual Property.
URL: http://www.arvic.com/

[Canada] Bereskin and Parr. In defense of genius.
URL: http://www.bereskinparr.com/

[Canada] Canadian Association of Photographers and Illustrators in Communications. Response to "Copyright and the Information Highway".
February 23, 1995.
URL: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/greer/copy1.htm

[Canada] Canadian Copyright Act.
URL: http://canada.justice.gc.ca/Loireg/index_en.html

[Canada] CANCOPY (Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency).
URL: http://www.cancopy.com/

[Canada] Canadian Intellectual Property Office.
URL: http://cipo.gc.ca/

[Canada] Chief Information Officer (Government of Canada).
URL: http://www.cio-dpi.gc.ca/home_e.html

[Canada] Final SubCommittee Report on Copyright and the Information Highway.
Canadian Information Highway Advisory Council - May, 1995.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/cihac007.txt

[Canada] Gow, Gordon A. Copyright Reform in Canada: Domestic Cultural Policy Objectives and the Challenge of Technological Convergence.
Communication Studies, University of Calgary. December, 1995.
URL: http://www.sfu.ca/~gagow/capcom/cpyrght.htm
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/gowg1.txt

[Canada] Study on New Media and Copyright. Final Report.
Prepared for Industry Canada, New Media, Information Technologies Industry Branch. June 30, 1994.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/nglfinal.txt (197 K)

[Canada] PATSCAN.
URL: http://www.patscan.ca/

[US] Basic U.S. Patent, Copyright and Trademark Information.
Franklin Pierce Law Center.
URL: http://www.fplc.edu/TFIELD/ipbasics.htm

[US] Copyright Act of 1976, as amended.
URL: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/

[US] Copyright Basics.
Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/usbasics.txt

[US] Copyright Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court (since May 1990).
URL: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/empower?DB=SupctSyllabi&TOPDOC=0&QUERY00=copyright

[US] Institute for Learning Technologies. Comments to the IITF on the Preliminary Report of the Working Group on Intellectual Property.
August 1994.
URL: http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/copyright/papers/iltdocs/ILTWGIP.html

[US] Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure.
Preliminary Draft (July 1994) of the Report of the Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights, a subgroup of the Information Infrastructure Task Force.
URL: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/doc/ipnii/
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/intlprop.txt (320 K)

[US] Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure.
Report of the Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights. September 1995.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/ipnii.txt (584 K)

[US] Library of Congress. Copyright Office.
URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/

[US] Proposed Guidelines on Fair Use for the Preservation of Library Materials.
Prepared for the Use of the Conference on Fair Use of the Working Group on Intellectual Property of the Information Infrastructure Task Force. January 19, 1995.
Drafted by Robert L. Oakley and Page Miller.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/preserve.txt

[US] Title 37 Code of Federal Regulations.
This is the section detailing claims to copyright, freedom of information, and other relevant legal statutes.
URL: http://wwwsecure.law.cornell.edu/copyright/regulations/regs.overview.html

[US] United States Code, Title 17.
This is a gopher containing the full text of Title 17. The title outlines the scope and uses of copyright.
URL: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/

[US] United States Patent Act, as amended.
URL: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/35/

[US] U.S. Copyright Documents.
URL: http://wiretap.area.com/Gopher/Gov/Copyright/

[US] U.S. Copyright Office.
URL: http://www.loc.gov/copyright/

[US] The U.S. House of Representatives. Internet Law Library. Intellectual property.
URL: http://law.house.gov/105.htm

[US] U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
URL: http://www.uspto.gov/

[US] U.S. Supreme Court Intellectual Property Decisions.
URL: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/empower?DB=SupctSyllabi&TOPDOC=0&QUERY00=copyright+patent+trademark

[US] Transcript, Public Hearing on Intellectual Property Issues.
NII Task Force Working Group on Intellectual Property, November 18, 1993.
URL: http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/copyright/papers/hearing.html


ASIA-PACIFIC

[Australia] APRA - Australasian Performing Right Association.
URL: http://www.apra.com.au/

[Australia] Australian Copyright Act.
1968. Updated as at 29 March 1995.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/ca196813.txt (608 K)

[Australia] Australian Intellectual Property Law Locus.
URL: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~pxc/iplocus/index.html

[Australia] Australian Council of Libraries and Information Services (ACLIS). Copyright for all Australians.
Submission by ACLIS to the CLRC Review and Simplification of the Copyright Act 1968.
URL: http://www.nla.gov.au/aclis/clrc.html

[Australia] National Library of Australia. Submission to the Copyright Law Review Committee on Reference to Review and Simplify the Copyright Act 1968.
URL: http://www.nla.gov.au/policy/clrc.html

[Japan] Copyright Law in Japan.
Japanese text.
URL: http://www.ntt.com/japan/misc/copyright.html

EUROPE

[EU] Copyright protection of computer programs in the European Communities/1991.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/eccomp.txt

[EU] European Commission. Green Paper: Copyright and Related Rights in the Information Society.
COM(95)382 Summary.
URL: http://europa.eu.int/scadplus/leg/en/lvb/l24152.htm

[EU] European Commission. Legal Advisory Board. The Information Society: copyright and multimedia.
Luxembourg, 26 April 1995
URL: http://www2.echo.lu/legal/en/950426/toc.html

[Norway] The Norwegian Reproduction Rights Organization.
URL: http://www.kopinor.no/

[Norway] TONO, The Norwegian Performing Right. Society.
URL: http://www.tono.no/

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