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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.


Artists Rights Society
Provides visual artists with support for copyright clearance and monitors the use and potential abuse of artists' rights.


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]


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.



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