Copyrights
Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotio, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, European Union Copyright Directive, Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death , Artists Rights Society, Buy DVDs and Games Abroad - and Break the Law, Can the World Be Copyrighted?, Christians and the Copyright Laws, Copy Catfight, Copyright and Globalization in the Age of Computer, Copyright as Cudgel, CopyrightGuru, Copyrights?
DVD Encryption
Articles, 2600 Hacker Quarterly News Archive, 42 Ways to Distribute DeCSS, California DeCSS case, Cryptanalysis of Contents Scrambling System, DeCSS Central, DeCSS Central: HAL2001 Speech, DeCSS for Linux and DVD, DeCSS/2600 Court of Appeals Decision, DVD Backup Guides, DVD-Copy.com - Legal Battle
Free Access Theory
Journal Cost Issues, American Scientist Forum on Open Access, Andrew Odlyzko: Papers on Electronic Publishing, Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in , Budapest Open Access Initiative, Create Change, Creating a global knowledge network, Declaration of Havana - Towards Equitable Access t, Declaration of San José - Towards the Virtual Heal, Electronic Dissemination of Thesis and Dissertatio, Eprints.org
Genetic Resources
Alternative Mechanisms to Enhance Corporate Monopo, Canadian Forum on the Patenting of Life, Commission on Intellectual Property Rights (CIPR), Comparing sui generis rights systems, Food Rights Campaign, Intellectual Property and Community Rights, International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources fo, No Patents on Life, People, Plants and Patents, Porto Alegre Treaty to Share the Global Commons
Music Freedom
Corrupted Audio CDs, MP3, Beyondthecommons, Boycott CDs, Boycott-Riaa.com, Business Week - Big Music's Worst Move Yet, Business Week - Did Big Music Really Sink the Pira, Canada Plays Neutral in File-Sharing War, Downhill Battle, File Sharing Doesn't Affect Films and Music S, Free Music, Grey Tuesday - Free the Grey Album
Organizations
Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, CODE: Campaign for an Open Digital Environment, Conference on the Public Domain, Creative Commons, Democratic Software Foundation, Digital Future Coalition, DigitalConsumer.org, EFFweb - The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Electronic Gift Economies, Inc., GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Patents
A Worldwide Fight Against Biopiracy and Patents on, Adobe Testimony, Against Patenting Lifeforms, AMNews: Unlocking innovation - Patents on procedur, Autodesk Statement, Boycott Amazon! - GNU Project - Free Software Foun, Catalan Linux Users - Analysis of the Directive fo, European Anti-Software Patent Bribe Pledge Drive, FFII - European Software Patent Horror Gallery, GreenPeace Opposition to European Life Patents
Piracy
Adobe - What Is Software Piracy?, Alliance Against Counterfeiting & Piracy, Association Européenne pour la Protection des Oeuv, BSA Anti-Piracy Site -- Software Piracy, In Defense of Piracy (Well, Some Piracy), Microsoft - How Piracy Affects You, PC World - Did Microsoft Flirt With Piracy?, Quality Brands Protections Committee, RIAA, SIIA Anti-Piracy
A Politics Of Intellectual Property: Environmental
Paper by James Boyle calling for reduction of intellectual property laws, to be achieved by political machination inspired by the environmental movement.
A Primer On the Ethics of "Intellectual Prope
This primer provides a general framework for freeing any information covered under copyright and patent laws.
Brian Martin: Against intellectual property
An Australian university gives a powerful case against "intellectual property" laws. Includes a long bibliography of books supporting the point.
Bunop's Intellectual Property Pencil
Irony exposing the limitations of a shrink-wrap license.
Copyright Law and Independent Creation Theory
Complaining that the law of independent creation allows the theft of music.
Copyright: Guardian of Intellectual Property
Guide to computer ethics issues and current news includes an introduction to the problematic copyright issues raised by digital media.
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]
Giftfile Project
A project to enable authors of computer files containing nonproprietary intellectual works (free music, literature, software) and their supporters (including fans, users) to participate in a gift economy.
Information Liberation: Against Intellectual Prope
A chapter from the book Information Liberation, written by Brian Martin.
Intellectual Property at the National Academies
A guide to the Academies' documents and publications on Intellectual Property and a forum to discuss ongoing work.
Intellectual Property Compensation Via Tipping
Article that proposes (with case studies) that tipping may be a viable compensation model for intellectual property (such as music and books).
Intellectual Property Issues
An impressive list of links to articles concerning intellectual "property" issues, from all sides.
Intellectual Property Rights Overview
The W3C's take on intellectual property rights in the Information Age.
Invention Development Group
Offers information on intellectual property agreements, patents, product licensing, and trademarking.
IP Future
This group is organized to promote discussion of intellectual property laws worldwide. It is hoped that a network of interested people can come together to begin discussing a future for intellectual property law which balances the needs of people with the needs of intellectual property owners.
IP Matters
A pro-IP publication devoted to intellectual property matters. Includes features, interviews, research reports and analysis, and IP statistics.
Library Juice Copyright Issue
A supplement to the weekly e-zine Library Juice from September, 2000, devoted to the political and philosophical issues of intellectual property, especially as they relate to libraries and the internet.
Mid-Atlantic Infoshop - Against Intellectual Prope
A page critical of copyrights, trademarks, and intellectual property.
Negativland - Fair Use
An essay exploring whether artists, for profit or not, have the right to freely "sample" from an already "created" electronic environment that surrounds them for use in their own work.
Roundtable - 98.09
An Atlantic Unbound roundtable on the future of intellectual property and copyright law in the digital age
The GNU Manifesto
The last name in software freedom...this outlines the reasons that "Gnu's Not Unix" produces free software.
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.
The Register - Sneaky Cable Crypto Scheme in the W
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.
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.
University of Toronto Fraud
A PhD student alleges theft of intellectual property.
Weaving Webs of Ownership: Intellectual Property i
Debora J. Halbert's doctoral dissertation in progress concerning on intellectual property laws in the West.
Wired - The Eagle Is Grounded
Article comparing today's toughening of US intellectual property laws to help given to the US shipping industry 30 years ago, resulting in even greater losses for US firms, higher prices, and frustrated consumers.