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http://www.theacap.com

An organization of artists, musicians and writers, educating webmasters in copyright issues. Offers help for both intellectual property owners and webmasters.

Arts and the Law

http://www.artsandthelaw.com/

Exploring the interaction of law with the visual, literary and performing arts.

Audio Video Licensing Agency

http://avla.ca

A non-exclusive agent that administers licensing in Canada for the owners and exclusive holders of copyright in audio and music video recordings.

Basic Copyright Concepts For Writers

http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/sept97/cew2.htm

Article explaining basic copyright concepts with links, examples, and additional information.

Berne Convention

http://www.law.cornell.edu/treaties/berne/overview.html

International convention for the protection of literary and artistic works.

Center for Democracy & Technology

http://www.cdt.org/copyright/

Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)

http://www.cni.org/Hforums/cni-copyright/about.html

A forum devoted to discussing copyright, intellectual property rights, and public access to information in the digital age.

Contracts, Copyright and Preemption in a Digital W

http://law.richmond.edu/jolt/v1i1/hardy.html

Law journal article by I. Trotter Hardy

CopyOwn

http://www.nethics.umd.edu/copyown/

A resource on copyright ownership for the higher education community.

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/index.html

From Stanford University Law School.

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~csundt/copyweb/

http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/copytoc.html

From the Association of Research Libraries, includes information on current legislation.

http://www.librarylaw.com

http://www.serve.com/marbeth/music_copyright.html

Series of articles written by piano teacher Martha Beth Lewis, Ph.D., of California, with links collected by the author.

http://www.cai.ie

Promotes informed debate and awareness of copyright issues in Ireland and around the world.

http://web.mit.edu/ist/topics/security/copyright/

http://www.mediainstitute.org/colloquium/

A forum which discusses and debates the many issues surrounding copyright and intellectual property in the digital age.

http://groton.k12.ct.us/mts/egtoc.htm

Policies adopted by Groton Public Schools in Mystic, Connecticut, based on a 1992 publication by Dr. Charles W. Vlcek of Washington, DC. Sections on photocopying and duplication of music and video as well as use of private databases.

http://copyright.iupui.edu/

http://www.fplc.edu/tfield/cOpyNet.htm

http://www.cors.co.uk/

Designed to deliver "real time" payments to rights owners, composers and songwriters, from all major collection societies.

http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm

http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/timeline.html

A history of copyright in the United States.

Copyrightnews.Com

http://www.copyrightnews.com/

Daily copyright and intellectual property headlines, and annotated intellectual property links.

Crash Course in Copyright Law from the University

http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/cprtindx.htm

Course to help you learn about how ownership of copyrighted materials works, what is fair use and when and how to get permission to use someone else's materials.

Current Copyright Legislation

http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/

From the U.S. Copyright Office, with links to full text of Senate and House bills.

Current Copyright Legislation

http://www.abanet.org/intelprop/currentleg.html

From the American Bar Association.

Digital Preservation and Copyright

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/commentary_and_analysis/2003_11_hirtle.html

Article from Peter D. Hirtle of Cornell University.

European Copyright User Platform

http://www.eblida.org/ecup/

Provides information on European copyright developments.

Fair Use in a Nutshell

http://copylaw.com/new_articles/fairuse.html

A 16-step roadmap to copyright's most important exception. By Lloyd J. Jassin, a New York-based publishing attorney.

Friends of Active Copyright Education

http://www.csusa.org/face/

Basic information about copyright, FAQs, myths and links.

GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html

Organization supporting software authors who give up their copyright protections to allow the free distribution of software.

Illustrated Story of Copyright

http://www.edwardsamuels.com/illustratedstory/index.htm

Detailing the history of copyright law.

Intellectual Property Online

http://www.eff.org/IP/

An exhaustive list of annotated links to patent, trademark and copyright information from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Interview: Michael Landau on Copyright

http://www.webreference.com/new/010628.html

Professor Landau of the Georgia State University College of Law comments on the Supreme Court case of The New York Times v. Tasini.

Libraries and Copyright in the Digital Age

http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/WOissues/copyrightb/copyright.htm

Information relating to fair use, library exemptions, and recent copyright legislation, from The American Library Association.

Music Library Association

http://www.lib.jmu.edu/org/mla/

Musicians' Intellectual Law and Resources Lin

http://www.aracnet.com/~schornj/index.shtml

Resources for copyright, trademark, royalty collection and other intellectual property topics.

Myths About Copyright Explained

http://www.templetons.com/brad//copymyths.html

Answers to common myths about copyright from Brad Templeton, former publisher at ClariNet Communications Corp.,

National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Herit

http://www.ninch.org/programs/exchange.html#cop

Information sharing initiatives, including copyright town meetings.

National Legislation - UNESCO

http://www.unesco.org/culture/copy/

Directory of full-text copyright laws from around the world, in English, for review on line or free download.

Online Copyright Resource Kit

http://digitalcooperative.oclc.org/copyright/

From OCLC.

Public Domain Information Project

http://www.pdinfo.com/

Reference site to help the ordinary person identify music and songs in the public domain.

Purpose of Copyright

http://www.open-spaces.com/article-v2n1-loren.php

An essay on the state of copyright protections.

Sentry

http://www.sentry.org

Australian copyright information

Song Rights

http://www.songrights.com/

Information on copyright for songwriters, from Robert Carter, a Texas lawyer.

Stanford Copyright & Fair Use

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/

Information and study aids concerning copyright law.

The Copyright Website

http://www.benedict.com/

Endeavoring to provide real world, practical and relevant copyright information.

TV's Bastard Offspring

http://www.copyright.theft.btinternet.co.uk

Personal account of victory against British broadcasters, over a stolen idea for a television program.

United States Copyright Office

http://www.copyright.gov/

Provides and an overview of copyright law, federal laws, regulations and other US government publications. Also provides information about registering a copyrighted document, as well as a searchable database of documents filed with the office.

US copyright law

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/index.html

Title 17- Copyrights- of the U.S. Code in its entirity from Cornell University

Visual Resources Association

http://www.vraweb.org/copyright.html

What is Copyright Protection?

http://www.whatiscopyright.org/

Information about copyrights in general, and as applied to the internet.

Yale University

http://www.library.yale.edu/~okerson/copyproj.html#ucopy

Annotated copyright policies of selected colleges and universities.