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These pages are left over from the old WXYC site and were last updated in 1997. Not all of the links below are still active.
There have been so many "incidents" on the net lately involving questions of "intellectual property," we figured it'd be a shame if we didn't provide some information on legal happenings around the world. Since there have been numerous debates lately revolving around the future of copyright and fair use, we're providing this page so that you can keep up with all the latest developments. PLEASE let us know about any links that need to be included here.
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Last summer the NII copyright bill was killed in session, but may yet be reintroduced. The bill would have given copyright owners control over the transmission and storage of digital information, criminalizing any distribution of licensed material beyond its initial authorized use. For the latest news on intellectual property issues, check in with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.- Digital Audio Recording Devices and Media copyright amendments, as well as the exclusive rights in sound recordings and secondary transmissions.
- The Home Recording Rights Coalition is an excellent resource for information pertaining to your rights of access to media.
Theories, Opinions, and General Righteousness (really)
- Looking for something specific? Telnet to a.cni.org ( Coalition for Networked Information), login as brsuser, and search copyright, intellectual property, and information policy databases.
- The Economy of Ideas by John Perry Barlow.
- It's the Context, Stupid by Paul Saffo
- Negativland's Intellectual Property Issues page
- Negativland's essay on Fair Use and the copyright law
- Nick Arnett's The Internet and the Anti-net: Two public internetworks are better than one
- Fair Use in the Electronic Age: Serving the Public Interest
A statement from numerous library associations
Legal Links
- Multimedia Law Handbook
- Multimedia Intellectual Property Handbook
- Intellectual Property and Digital Media archives at MIT's Media Lab
- Coalition for Networked Information - Copyright discussion archives
- Supreme Court decision on 2 Live Crew as advertised in Keyboard magazine
- List of Artist-friendly laywers as advertised in Keyboard magazine
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Legal Issues Archive
- The Journal of Online Law at Cornell University
- The US Patent & Trademark Office (PTO)
- The Legal Information Institute at Cornell University.
- The Copyright Website at Cornell University.
- The Yahoo Intellectual Property page
- The Yahoo Copyrights page
- The Copyright FAQ