Intellectual Property & Copyright

General

 

Wikipedia, “Intellectual Property

Standford University, “Copyright and Fair Use FAQs

Howard Besser, "Intellectual Property & New Info Technology"

 

Articles

Art Brodsky, “Reclaiming the Digital Frontier”, TomPaine.com, April 2007.

Tim Wu, “ Copyright's Communications Policy”, Michigan Law Review, November 2004.

Jenny Toomey and Walter McDonough Interview “Copyright Law in the Digital Age”, June 2000

Ken Fisher “Privately, Hollywood Admits DRM Isn’t About Piracy”, Arstechnica.com, January 2007.

American Library Association, “Copyright Issues: Libraries in the Digital Age

 

Reports

 

Final Report to the Commissioner on the Conclusion of the Conference on Fair Use” (PDF), November 1998.

Center for Social Media, “Best Practices in Fair Use” (PDF), November 2005.

Marjorie Heins and Tricia Beckles, “Will Fair Use Survive?” (PDF) Brennan Center for Justice, December 2005.

Laura Quilter and Marjorie Heins, “Intellectual Property and Free Speech in the Online World: How Educational Institutions and Other Online Service Providers Are Coping with Cease and Desist Letters and Takedown Notices” Brennen Center for Justice, February 2007.

Digital Cultures Project: Copyright and the Networked Computer: A Stakeholder’s Congress, 2003 Conference VIDEO, AUDIO

Electronic Frontier Foundation “Unintended Consequences: Seven Years Under the DMCA”, April 2006.

Books

Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity, (Penguin Press, 2005.)

Lawrence Lessig, Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, (Basic Books, 2006.)

Siva Vaidhyanathan, The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System (New York: Basic Books, 2004)

Siva Vaidhyanathan, Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity (New York: New York University Press, 2003)

Litman, Jessica, Digital Copyright (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2001)