Intellectual Property
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- A Primer On the Ethics of "Intellectual Property"
- This primer provides a general framework for freeing any information covered under copyright and patent laws.
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- Did You Say "Intellectual Property"? It's a Seductive Mirage
- Supports the idea that the term carries a bias since it suggests thinking about copyright, patents and trademarks by analogy with property rights for physical objects and also that it's a catch-all to lump together disparate laws. By Richard Stallman.
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- Free Intellectual Property Exchange (FreeIPX)
- A news and discussion site dedicated to critical analysis of the use, abuse, and relevance of IP Law. [Slash-style site]
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- Information Liberation: Against Intellectual Property
- A chapter from the book Information Liberation, written by Brian Martin.
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- Intellectual Property Rights Overview
- The W3C's take on intellectual property rights in the Information Age.
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- Stanford Center for Internet and Society's Fair Use Project (FUP)
- Provides legal support to a range of projects designed to clarify, and extend, the boundaries of "fair use" in order to enhance creative freedom.
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- The GNU Manifesto
- The last name in software freedom...this outlines the reasons that "Gnu's Not Unix" produces free software.
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- The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind
- Professor James Boyle's site discussing the balance between intellectual property and the public domain -- including free downloadable versions of his Yale University Press book on the subject.
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- The Right to Read
- Richard Stallman's famous parable about the Right to Read, and what will happen if intellectual monopoly laws continue to grow.
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- The Register - Sneaky Cable Crypto Scheme in the Works
- Article exposing that the cable television industry is moving to implement a copy protection scheme that will allow movie studios and cable providers to control what viewers are able to record. (December 22, 2000)
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- The Mark is the Beast
- An article describing the change in the usage of trademarks, and how it stifles our use of our own language. (July 20, 1998)
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- Artists Rights Society
- Provides visual artists with support for copyright clearance and monitors the use and potential abuse of artists' rights.
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- 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.
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- Digital Copyright
- Book by Jessica Litman about the collision between expectations of freedom of expression and copyright law.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Intellectual Property and Copyright Ethics
- Academic paper. General introduction to the subject of copyright ethics.
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- Jewish Law and Copyright
- Rabbi Israel Schneider gives his interpretation of Mosaic law and copyright issues.