copyright
Note: this list is only intermittently updated
- Copyright Law
- Berne Copyright Convention of 1928 — text of the primary international copyright law (which dates back to 1886) with revisions and amendments up to 1979
- Other Berne treaties — e.g. the Trademark Law Treaty
- Copyright Act of 1976 — text of the U.S. copyright law
- World Intellectual Property Organization
- DMCA — PDF of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 2000, which attempts to update copyright law for the digital environment
- Copyright FAQs and Articles
- “When Works Pass into the Public Domain” — quick reference table prepared by Laura Gasaway
- “The Art of Making Copyright Laws” — by Jessica Litman (ch. 2 of her book Digital Copyright, 2001)
- Electronic Frontier Foundation — page on intellectual property issues, with many links
- “Copyright and Author’s Rights” — includes discussion of European concepts of authors’ rights and moral rights
- “Anti-Copyright and Cassette Culture” — by Donald McGraith
- “The Heavenly Jukebox” — by Charles C. Mann (from the Atlantic Monthly, October 2000)
- An Intellectual Property Law Primer for Multimedia and Web Developers
- A Primer on Distance Learning and Intellectual Property Issues — by a law firm
- Copyright Activism
- Creative Commons
- “Copywrong” — by Richard M. Stallman
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation
- File Sharing resources — an initiative of the EFF
- Lawrence Lessig’s blog
- The GNU Project — the GNU General Public Licence
- The Open Archives Initiative
- Creators’ Rights Alliance
- Digital Future Coalition