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I Am Gonna Copy I Am Gonna Copy
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. ...
Slashdot - Canada to Hold Public Hearings on Digital Copyright Slashdot - Canada to Hold Public Hearings on Digital Copyright
Slashdot - Canada to Hold Public Hearings on Digital Copyright- Article on the Canadian government holding public hearings on the Copyright Act reform. ...
PenTrans PenTrans
PenTrans- Pennsylvanians for Transportations Solutions, Inc. advocates for increased dedicated funding for public transportation statewide in Pennsylvania. ...
DigitalConsumer.org DigitalConsumer.org
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. ...
The Campaign to Have Copyright Interests Trump Technology and Consumer Rights The Campaign to Have Copyright Interests Trump Technology and Consumer Rights
The Campaign to Have Copyright Interests Trump Technology and Consumer Rights- Speech by Gary Shapiro, President of the Consumer Electronics Association, to the Optical Storage Symposium. ...
A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t Its Copyright? A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t Its Copyright?
A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t Its Copyright?- Opinion article arguing that copyrights, like physical property rights, should last forever. By Mark Helperin. ...
Buy DVDs and Games Abroad - and Break the Law Buy DVDs and Games Abroad - and Break the Law
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 a ...
QuestionCopyright.org QuestionCopyright.org
QuestionCopyright.org- A weblog questioning the idea that copyright is necessary for the promotion of creative expression. Has a collection of interesting links. ...
History of Copyright History of Copyright
History of Copyright- A very simple but authoritative reference for the history of copyrights back to the 14th Century with references. ...
Intellectual Property and Copyright Ethics Intellectual Property and Copyright Ethics
Intellectual Property and Copyright Ethics- Academic paper. General introduction to the subject of copyright ethics. ...
Infringement Nation: Copyright Reform and the Law/Norm Gap Infringement Nation: Copyright Reform and the Law/Norm Gap
Infringement Nation: Copyright Reform and the Law/Norm Gap- Essay on the growing gap between what technology allows us to do and what copyright tells us not to do, and how it turns ordinary people into serial infringers. ...
Wikipedia: Digital Rights Management Wikipedia: Digital Rights Management
Wikipedia: Digital Rights Management- Provides a definition and possible applications. Also covers opposing views. ...
First Monday: Digital rights management and the breakdown of social norms First Monday: Digital rights management and the breakdown of social norms
First Monday: Digital rights management and the breakdown of social norms- Article by Christopher May on the creation of digital rights management as a function of societal changes in emerging capitalism. ...
Howstuffworks: How Digital Rights Management Works Howstuffworks: How Digital Rights Management Works
Howstuffworks: How Digital Rights Management Works- Information about the theory behind the technology. ...
D-Lib Magazine D-Lib Magazine
D-Lib Magazine- Compilation of design and architecture by Renato Iannella. Also provides examples and practical uses. ...
How FairPlay Works: Apple's iTunes DRM Dilemma How FairPlay Works: Apple's iTunes DRM Dilemma
How FairPlay Works: Apple's iTunes DRM Dilemma- Article on Roughly Drafted covering details about how the format works and its limitations. ...
BBC Click: Digital Lock's Rights and Wrongs BBC Click: Digital Lock's Rights and Wrongs
BBC Click: Digital Lock's Rights and Wrongs- Article by Spencer Kelly covering the benefits and detriments. ...
Apple Unveils Higher Quality DRM-Free Music on the iTunes Store Apple Unveils Higher Quality DRM-Free Music on the iTunes Store
Apple Unveils Higher Quality DRM-Free Music on the iTunes Store- Press release covering the release of higher quality EMI titles. ...
BBC News: The DRM Maze for Consumers BBC News: The DRM Maze for Consumers
BBC News: The DRM Maze for Consumers- Examination of several companies and their response to piracy through right management solutions. ...
Managing Rights Management Managing Rights Management
Managing Rights Management- Commentary by Robert Weber covering conditional, technical, and business aspects. ...
ACM Queue - Understanding DRM ACM Queue - Understanding DRM
ACM Queue - Understanding DRM- David Sohn explains digital rights management (DRM), broadly defined as technical measures used to protect content in digital media devices and services. ...
American Library Association: Digital Rights Management and Libraries American Library Association: Digital Rights Management and Libraries
American Library Association: Digital Rights Management and Libraries- Contains a brief overview with concern focuses of libraries and higher education. ...
Eprints.org Eprints.org
Eprints.org- Dedicated to the freeing of the refereed research literature online through author/institution self-archiving. Provides free (GNU) software for self-archiving. ...
Public Library of Science Public Library of Science
Public Library of Science- A non-profit organization of scientists committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature freely accessible to scientists and to the public around the world. Promotion of free a ...
Budapest Open Access Initiative Budapest Open Access Initiative
Budapest Open Access Initiative- Aims to accelerate progress in the international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available on the Internet. ...
Free Online Scholarship Newsletter Free Online Scholarship Newsletter
Free Online Scholarship Newsletter- (FOS) News and discussion on the migration of print scholarship to the internet and efforts to make it available to readers free of charge. Newsletter, forum, FAQ and a comprehensive d ...
Stevan Harnad on Free Access Initiatives Stevan Harnad on Free Access Initiatives
Stevan Harnad on Free Access Initiatives- How to free access to scientific literature: papers by one of the leaders of the open archives initiative. ...
Peter Suber's Guide to the FOS Movement Peter Suber's Guide to the FOS Movement
Peter Suber's Guide to the FOS Movement- Comprehensive guide to the terminology, acronyms, initiatives, standards, technologies, and players in the free online scholarship initiative. ...
Create Change Create Change
Create Change- A resource for faculty and librarian action to reclaim scholarly communication. Main issues concern subscription prices for scholarly journals and help for journals willing to find publishing options bette ...
Nature Debates: E-Access Nature Debates: E-Access
Nature Debates: E-Access- Online forum hosted by Nature Online concerning the impact of the web on the future of publishing and the dissemination of scientific information. ...
Self-Archiving FAQ Self-Archiving FAQ
Self-Archiving FAQ- Answers to frequently asked questions about self archiving including what and how. Has a "I worry about..." set of questions too with advice and answers to issues. ...
Andrew Odlyzko: Papers on Electronic Publishing Andrew Odlyzko: Papers on Electronic Publishing
Andrew Odlyzko: Papers on Electronic Publishing- A selection of papers on the future of electronic publication in the field of academic communication, its impact and consequences. ...
Measure Calls for Wider Access to Federally Financed Research Measure Calls for Wider Access to Federally Financed Research
Measure Calls for Wider Access to Federally Financed Research- A group challenging the power of established scientific journals says legislation will be introduced to make the results of all federally financed research a ...
Creating a global knowledge network Creating a global knowledge network
Creating a global knowledge network- Considerations on how to build a knowledge network for research communication and on its potential impact, by P. Ginsparg, one of the founders of ArXiv. ...
Online or Invisible? Online or Invisible?
Online or Invisible?- Article by Steve Lawrence appeared in Nature (2001) analyzing the citation rate of online and off line articles. Articles freely available online are more highly cited, free online availability subs ...
Canada Plays Neutral in File-Sharing War Canada Plays Neutral in File-Sharing War
Canada Plays Neutral in File-Sharing War- Article discussing Canada's stand on file-sharing and the industry watchdogs. ...
First Monday - The Streetperformer Protocol & Digital Copyrights First Monday - The Streetperformer Protocol & Digital Copyrights
First Monday - The Streetperformer Protocol & Digital Copyrights- Introducing the Street Performer Protocol, an electronic-commerce mechanism to facilitate the private financing of public works. Using this protocol, peop ...
Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing
Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing- An internet discussion about scientific and scholarly journals and their future. ...
Animals on the Underground Animals on the Underground
Animals on the Underground- A site dedicated to "The Animals" that can be found on London tube maps using a little imagination. ...
Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Prior Art Database (TEK*PAD) Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Prior Art Database (TEK*PAD)
Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Prior Art Database (TEK*PAD)- An online, searchable archive of public domain documented uses of traditional ecological knowledge concerning indigenous knowledge and plant species, nec ...
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture- UKabc portal on the IT PGRFA (International Seed Treaty) that governs the access, use, conservation and development of the genetic resources of fo ...
Small-scale Producers' Intellectual Rights to Agricultural Biodiversity Small-scale Producers' Intellectual Rights to Agricultural Biodiversity
Small-scale Producers' Intellectual Rights to Agricultural Biodiversity- Introduction to the issues in a Kenyan context, with an emphasis on farmers, pastoralists and fisherfolk, and the need for protocols on intellectua ...
TRIPs, Biodiversity and Commonwealth Countries TRIPs, Biodiversity and Commonwealth Countries
TRIPs, Biodiversity and Commonwealth Countries- Discussion paper prepared for the Commonwealth Secretariat on capacity building priorities for the Review of TRIPs Article 27.3(b). Extensive links to related papers and si ...
WorldTrade Organisation - TRIPs / Patents pages WorldTrade Organisation - TRIPs / Patents pages
WorldTrade Organisation - TRIPs / Patents pages- WTO's pages on the Agreement on Trade-Related aspects of Intellectual Property rights (TRIPs), highlighting the patents clauses which include genetic resources patents. Li ...
Porto Alegre Treaty to Share the Global Commons Porto Alegre Treaty to Share the Global Commons
Porto Alegre Treaty to Share the Global Commons- Full text and background of proposed treaty designed to ensure that governments and Indigenous Peoples, who are the caretakers of their part of the genetic commons, establ ...
WIPO: Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge, and Folklore WIPO: Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge, and Folklore
WIPO: Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge, and Folklore- World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) pages on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources with links to Traditional Knowl ...
The Transit Cooperative Research Program The Transit Cooperative Research Program
The Transit Cooperative Research Program- A branch of the Federal Transit Administration, this site provides the results of transit research in all areas related to public transit. ...
Save amtrak trains Save amtrak trains
Save amtrak trains- Save amtrak trains ...
Intellectual Property and Community Rights in African Agriculture: Implications for Small Farmers Intellectual Property and Community Rights in African Agriculture: Implications for Small Farmers
Intellectual Property and Community Rights in African Agriculture: Implications for Small Farmers- Authoritative introduction to these issues by Genetic Resources Action International (GRAIN) concerning African countries ...
Blogging Biodiversity Blogging Biodiversity
Blogging Biodiversity- A useful personal weblog on international negotiations on biodiversity issues. ...

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