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Last Update: August 4, 1998


IN THIS DOCUMENT:

  • Bibliography
  • Periodicals
  • Organizations and Copyright Collections
  • Copyright Policies: Selected Examples
  • International Instruments
  • Americas
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Europe

    SEE ALSO:

    Digital Libraries: Cataloguing and Indexing of Electronic Resources

    Digital Libraries: Projects and Resources

    Information Policy: General Resources

    Library and Information Science: General Resources

    Library and Information Science: Policy Statements


    Contributors:

    Jan Stohner
    Stephen Spencer
    Nancy Brodie

  • BIBLIOGRAPHY

    AAU. Report of the AAU Task Force on Intellectual Property Rights in an Electronic Environment.
    Submitted to the AAU Presidents Steering Committee. April 4, 1994. Washington, DC.
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/intllpty.txt (137K)

    American Committee for Interoperable Systems. Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure
    September 1, 1994.
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    American Library Association, et. al. Fair Use in the Electronic Age: Serving the Public Interest.
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    Anonymous. Some myths about intellectual property.
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    Berry, John W. Statement on behlaf of on behalf of the University Library, The University of Illinois at Chicago.
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    Burk, Dan L. Transborder Intellectual Property Issues on the Electronic Frontier.
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    Carroll, Terry. Copyright FAQ.
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    Chase, Mark E. Educators' Attitudes and Related Copyright Issues in Education: A Review of Selected Research 1980-1992.
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    Coalition for Networked Information. R E A D I (Rights for Electronic Access to and Delivery of Information).
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    Coalition for Networked Information, et. al. Proceedings: Technological Strategies for Protecting Intellectual Property in the Networked Multimedia Environment.
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    Consortium for Educational Technology for University Systems. Fair Use of Copyrighted Works.
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    Coyle, Karen. Copyright in the Digital Age.
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    Crews, Kenneth D. Copyright Law, Libraries, and Universities: Overview, Recent Developments, and Future Issues.
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    Crews, Kenneth D. Copyright Law and the Doctoral Dissertation: Guidelines to Your Legal Rights and Responsibilities.
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    Decker, Jack. Christians and the Copyright Law.
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    Denber, Michael, et. al. Intellectual Property Rights.
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    Demac, Donna. Property Rights in the Electronic Dawn.
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    Demarest, Marc. Controlling Dissemination Mechanisms: The Unstamped Press and the 'Net.
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    Dyson, Esther. Intellectual Value.
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    Ebersole, Joseph L. Response to Dr. Linn's paper "Copyright and Information Services in the Context of the National Research and Education Network."
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    Elias, Steve. Copyrights in Cyberspace.
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    Erickson, John S. A Copyright Management System for Networked Interactive Multimedia.
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    Erickson, John S. Can Fair Use Survive our Information-based Future?
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    Fernandez, Dennis. Understanding Intellectual Property Rights.
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    Field, Thomas G., Jr. Copyright for Computer Authors.
    Franklin Pierce Law Center. 1995.
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    Field, Thomas G., Jr. Copyright in Visual Arts.
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    Field, Thomas G., Jr. Intellectual Property: The Practical and Legal Fundamentals.
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    Fisher, Janet. Copyright: The Glue of the System.
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    Garfinkel, Simson L. Patently Absurd.
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    Gassaway, Laura. When Works Pass Into the Public Domain.
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    Gerovac, Branko and Richard J. Solomon. Protect Revenues, Not Bits: Identify Your Intellectual Property.
    n.d.
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/gerovac.txt

    Gloster, Deam M. and Kat McCabe. Making the New Media Deal.
    Intellectual Property Magazine, July 1995.
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/glod1.htm

    Graham, Peter S. Intellectual Preservation and Electronic Intellectual Property.
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/graham.txt

    Greguras, Fred, Egger, Michael R. and Wong, Sandy J. Multimedia Content and the Super Highway: Rapid Acceleration or Foot on the Brake?
    June 18, 1994.
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    Griswold, Gary N. A Method for Protecting Copyright on Networks.
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    Halbert, Debora. Computer Technology and Legal Discourse: The Potential For Modern Communication Technology To Challenge Legal Discourses Of Authorship and Property.
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    Halbert, Debora. Weaving Webs of Ownership: Intellectual Property in an Information Age.
    Dissertation draft.
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    Halbert, Martin. Copyright, Digital Media, and Libraries.
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    Hardy, Trotter. Contracts, Copyright, and Preemption in a Digital World.
    Richmond Journal of Law and Technology, April 17, 1995.
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    Harper, Georgia. Copyright and the University Community.
    The Office of General Counsel. The University of Texas System. August 1993. (90K)
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    Index Stock Photography, Inc. Understanding Copyright Law.
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    Information Technology Association of Canada. A Copy is a Copy: Copyright Issues and the Emerging Information Infrastructure.
    February 1995.
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    Interactive Multimedia Association. Testimony at the public hearing on "Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure".
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    International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). Position paper on copyright in the electronic environment.
    October 1996.
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    International Publishers Association. Position Paper on Libraries, Copyright and the Electronic Environment of the International Publishers Copyright Council (IPCC).
    22 April 1996.
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    Jensen, Michael. Need-Based Intellectual Property Protection and Networked University Press Publishing.
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    Kahin, Brian. The Strategic Environment for Protecting Multimedia.
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    Kahn, Robert E. Deposit, Registration and Recordation in an Electronic Copyright Mangement System.
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    Kotlas, Carolyn. Computers and Copyrights: Bibliography.
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    Lanham, Richard A. A New Operating System for the Humanities.
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    Lemley, Mark. Rights of Attribution and Integrity in Online Communication.
    Journal of Online Law, June 1995.
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    Leventhal, Michael. Who Can Stake a Claim in Cyberspace?
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    Linn, R. J. Copyright and Information Services in the Context of the National Research and Education Network.
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    Littman, Jessica. Revising Copyright Law for the Information Age.
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    Lutzker, Arnold. Review and Analysis of the Report of the Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights, Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure (White Paper).
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    Lyman, Peter. Copyright and Fair Use in the Digital Age: Q and A with Peter Lyman.
    Educom Review January/February 1995.
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    Martin, Peter. Pre-digital law: How prior information technologies have shaped access to and the nature of law.
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    Massarsky, Barry M. The Operating Dynamics Behind ASCAP, BMI and SESAC, The U.S. Performing Rights Societies.
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    Moore, June B. Copyrighting Public Domain Programs.
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    National Writers Union
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    Negativland. Fair Use.
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    Negroponte, Nicholas. Bill Of Writes.
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    Nelson, Theodor Holm. A Publishing and Royalty Model for Networked Documents.
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    Norderhaug, Terje and Oberding, Juliet M. Designing a Web of Intellectual Property.
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    Oakley, Robert L. Copyright and Preservation: A Serious Problem in Need of a Thoughtful Solution.
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    Oakley, Robert L. Statement on Behalf of Several Library and Education Associations.
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    Oakley, Robert L. Statement on Behalf of American Association of Law Libraries and Several Other Library Organizations.
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    Perritt, Henry W., Jr. Permission Headers and Contract Law.
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    Perrit Jr., Henry. Protection of Intellectual Property in the National Information Infrastructure.
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    Phillips, Kenneth L. Meta-Information, The Network of the Future and Intellectual Property Protection.
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    Picture Agency Council of America. The Copyright Commandments from PACA.
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    Richards, David. The Copyright Law and the Musician.
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    Saffo, Paul. It's the Context, Stupid.
    Wired Online Service. 1994.
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    Samuelson, Pamela. The Copyright Grab.
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    Samuelson, Pamela. Digital Media and the Law.
    Communications of the ACM, October 1991.
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    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/samp4.txt

    Samuelson, Pamela. Is Information Property?
    Communications of the ACM, March 1991.
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    Samuelson, Paula. Copyright, Digital Data, and Fair Use in Digital Networked Environments.
    Centre de recherche en droit public (CRDP). The Electronic Super-highway. Montreal, Friday, May 13th 1994.
    URL: http://www.droit.umontreal.ca/crdp/en/equipes/technologie/conferences/dac/index.html

    Samuelson, Paula. Copyright law and electronic compilations of data.
    Communications of the ACM, February 1992.
    URL: http://www.eff.org/pub/Intellectual_property/ip_and_electronic_data.paper
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/samp2.txt

    Samuelson, Pamela. First Amendment Rights for Information Providers.
    Communications of the ACM, June 1991.
    URL: http://www.eff.org/pub/Intellectual_property/first_amend_rights_for_info_providers.paper
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/samp5.txt

    Samuelson, Paula. Legally Speaking: The NII Intellectual Property Report.
    Communications of the ACM. December 1994.
    URL: http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/copyright/papers/samuelson2.html
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/samp1.htm

    Schlacter, Eric. Intellectual Property Protection Regimes in the Age of the Internet.
    Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson and Tatum, Palo Alto, CA.
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/sche1.htm

    Shade, Leslie Regan. Copyright in the Digital Networked Environment.
    Discussion Paper for Intellectual Property or Public Knowledge: A Roundtable Discussion of Copyright in the Nineties, Concordia University, April 7, 1995.
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/shade01.htm

    Shneiderman, Ben . Protecting rights in user interface designs.
    Prepared for ACM SIGCHI Bulletin October 1990 special issue on copyright legal issues.
    URL: gopher://wiretap.spies.com:70/00/Library/Article/Rights/userintf.cp
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/shnb.txt

    Smallson, Fran. Soliciting From a Spectrum of Sources.
    Intellectual Property Magazine, February 1995.
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/smaf1.htm

    Stallman, Richard M. Copywrong.
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    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/star1.txt

    Stallman, Richard. GNU'S Not UNIX.
    Interview conducted by David Betz and Jon Edwards. Stallman discusses his public-domain UNIX-compatible software system July 1986.
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/stallman.txt

    Stanbury, William T. Aspects of public policy regarding crown copyright in the digital age.
    Centre de recherche en droit public (CRDP). Crown copyright in Cyberspace. Montréal vendredi, 12 mai 1995.
    URL: http://www.droit.umontreal.ca/crdp/en/equipes/technologie/conferences/dac/index.html

    Sterling, J.A. Crown Copyright in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth Countries.
    Crown copyright in Cyberspace Conference. CRDP, Montréal vendredi, 12 mai 1995.
    URL: http://www.droit.umontreal.ca/crdp/en/equipes/technologie/conferences/dac/index.html

    Strong, William S. Copyright in the New World of Electronic Publishing.
    Presented at the workshop Electronic Publishing Issues II at the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) Annual Meeting, June 17, 1994, Washington, D.C.
    Journal of Electronic Publishing.
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    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/strong.htm

    Tedd, Mike. Papers on Copyright Issues in the Electronic Library.
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    Templeton, Brad. Copyright Myths FAQ.
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    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/temple.htm

    Upthegrove, Luella and Roberts, Tom. Intellectual Property Header Descriptors: A Dynamic Approach.
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    USENET. Copyright FAQ.
    URL: http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/internet/news/faq/by_category.law.copyright-faq.html

    USENET. misc.int-property
    URL: news:misc.int-property

    USENET. misc.int-property archive.
    HTML archive through KentLaw
    URL: http://www.kentlaw.edu/cgi-bin/ldn_news/-T+misc.int-property

    U.S. NTIA. Virtual Conference on Universal Access and Open Service.
    November 1994.
    Intellectual Property and the Information Infrastructure.
    James M. Bower.
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/jbower.txt
    A Balancing Act: Copyright in the Electronic Age.

    Carol C. Henderson.
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/chender.txt

    Various. Statement on Lawful Uses of Copyrighted Works.
    This statement was developed by representatives of the following associations:
    American Association of Law Libraries - American Library Association - Association of Academic Health Sciences Library Directors - Association of Research Libraries - Medical Library Association - Special Libraries Association
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/uses.htm

    Vaver, David. Copyright and the State in Canada and the United States.
    Centre de recherche en droit public (CRDP). Crown copyright in Cyberspace. Montréal vendredi, 12 mai 1995.
    URL: http://www.droit.umontreal.ca/crdp/en/equipes/technologie/conferences/dac/vaver/vaver.html


    PERIODICALS

    Berkeley Technology Law Journal.
    URL: http://server.berkeley.edu/BTLJ

    Copyright and New Media Legal News.
    URL: http://collection.nlc-bnc.ca/100/201/300/copyright-a/index.html

    Harvard Journal of Law and Technology.
    URL: http://studorg.law.harvard.edu/jolt/

    Intellectual Property Magazine.
    URL: http://www.ipmag.com/

    Intellectual Property News.
    URL: http://www.ljextra.com/practice/intellectualproperty/

    Journal of Electronic Publishing.
    URL: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/

    Journal of Law and Information Science.
    URL: http://www.hull.ac.uk/Hull/Law_Web/journals/jlis/top.html

    Richmond Journal of Law and Technology.
    URL: http://www.urich.edu:80/~jolt/

    Villanova Information Law Chronicle.
    URL: http://ming.law.vill.edu/vill.info.l.chron/

    ORGANIZATIONS AND OTHER COPYRIGHT COLLECTIONS

    The Ad Hoc Copyright Coalition.
    URL: http://www.ahccoalition.org/

    Against Intellectual Property.
    URL: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~ctb/anarchy/intelprop.html

    American Intellectual Property Law Association.
    URL: http://www.aipla.org/

    American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).
    URL: http://www.ascap.com/

    Australian Copyright Council.
    URL: http://www.copyright.org.au/

    BMI (Broadcast Music Inc.)
    URL: http://bmi.com/

    Brooks and Kushman Intellectual Property Primer.
    URL: http://www.spi.org/bkprime.pdf

    Center for Advanced Study and Research on Intellectual Property.
    URL: http://www.law.washington.edu:80/~casrip/

    Coalition for Networked Information Copyright Mailing List Archive (CNI-COPYRIGHT).
    URL: gopher://gopher.cni.org/11/cniwg/forums/cni-copyright

    Computers and Law.
    SUNY Buffalo School of Law student site.
    URL: http://wings.buffalo.edu/law/Complaw

    Computers and Fair Use.
    Stanford University Libraries. A very good resource.
    URL: http://fairuse.stanford.edu/

    CONFU: The Conference on Fair Use.
    Stanford University Libraries. A very good resource.
    URL: http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/confu.htm

    Copyright and Universities.
    URL: http://arl.cni.org/scomm/copyright/UniCopy.html

    Copyright Clearance Center Online.
    URL: http://www.copyright.com/

    Copyright Interactive Forum.
    American Association for the Advancement of Science.
    URL: http://sci.aaas.org/aaas/copyright/j.html

    The Copyright Web Site.
    An excellent collection of resources on intellectual property in the new media environment.
    URL: http://www.benedict.com/

    The Creative Incentive Coalition.
    URL: http://www.cic.org/

    CyberLaw and CyberLex.
    An educational service focusing on legal issues concerning computer technology.
    URL: http://www.cyberlaw.com/

    CyberSpace Law Center.
    URL: http://www.cybersquirrel.com/clc/clcindex.html

    EFF Intellectual Property Issues and Policy Archive.
    URL: http://www.eff.org/pub/Intellectual_property/

    EINET Intellectual Property Law.
    URL: http://www.einet.net/galaxy/Law/Intellectual-Property.html

    Electronic Privacy Information Center.
    Somewhat peripheral but some items may be of interest.
    URL: http://www.epic.org/

    Entertainment Law Resources for Film, TV and Multimedia Producers.
    Mark Litwak. A number of interesting papers.
    URL: http://www.laig.com/law/entlaw

    Franklin Pierce Law Center.
    URL: http://www.fplc.edu/fplchome.htm

    Home Recording Rights Coalition.
    URL: http://www.hrrc.org

    The Institute for Learning Technologies.
    Provides an excellent source for locating Internet information resources about copyright.
    URL: http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/gen/ref/ILTcopy.html

    The Intellectual Property Information Mall.
    Franklin Pierce Law Center.
    URL: http://www.fplc.edu/ipmall/

    Intellectual Property Owners (IPO).
    An organization serving owners of patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets.
    URL: http://www2.ipo.org/ipo/

    International Entertainment, Multimedia and Intellectual Property Law and Business Network.
    URL: http://www.laig.com/law/intnet

    Legal Information Institute.
    Cornell University Law School. A great collection of legal materials. See the topical listings under "intellectual property."
    URL: http://www.law.cornell.edu/#main_menus

    League for Programming Freedom.
    An organization that opposes software patents and interface copyrights.
    URL: ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/lpf/

    MPLC - Motion Picture Licensing Corporation.
    URL: http://www.mplc.com/

    Music Publishers Association of the United States.
    URL: http://www.mpa.org/

    USF Intellectual Property Online.
    URL: http://www.usfca.edu/ipla/

    Software Publishers Association.
    URL: http://www.spa.org/

    The Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy.
    URL: gopher://ming.law.vill.edu/11/.efl/

    World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
    URL: http://www.wipo.org/

    WWW Multimedia Law.
    URL: http://www.batnet.com/oikoumene/

    COPYRIGHT POLICIES: EXAMPLES

    American Library Association. 1986 ALA Model Policy. Library and Classroom Use of Copyrighted Videotapes and Computer Software.
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/ala-1.txt

    Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ACM Interim Copyright Policy.
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/acm1.htm

    Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Author's Guide to ACM Interim Copyright Policies.
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/acm2.htm

    EDUCOM. Using Software: A Guide to the Ethical and Legal Use of Software for Members of the Academic Community.
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/educom.txt

    TRLN. TRLN model copyright policy.
    Model University Policy Regarding Faculty Publication in Scientific and Technical Scholarly Journals: A Background Paper and Review of the Issues. July 1993.
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/trln.txt

    University of Georgia Libraries. Copyright Policy.
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/uga.txt">

    Wellesley College. Copyright Policy.
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/wllsycpy.txt

    INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS

    Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (Paris Text 1971).
    URL: http://www.law.cornell.edu/treaties/berne/overview.html

    Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms.
    URL: http://www.tufts.edu/departments/fletcher/multi/texts/BH588.txt
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/bh588.txt

    International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations.
    URL: http://www.tufts.edu/departments/fletcher/multi/texts/BH423.txt
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/bh423.txt

    Patent Cooperation Treaty/1970.
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/patent.txt (108 K)
    Regulations.
    Washington, June 19, 1970.
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/patentrg.txt (205 K)

    Universal Copyright Convention (1971).
    URL: http://www.tufts.edu/departments/fletcher/multi/texts/UNTS13444.txt
    UR: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/ucc.txt


    AMERICAS

    [Canada] ARVIC's Guide To Intellectual Property.
    URL: http://www.arvic.com/

    [Canada] Bereskin and Parr. In defense of genius.
    URL: http://www.bereskinparr.com/

    [Canada] Canadian Association of Photographers and Illustrators in Communications. Response to "Copyright and the Information Highway".
    February 23, 1995.
    URL: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/greer/copy1.htm

    [Canada] Canadian Copyright Act.
    URL: http://canada.justice.gc.ca/Loireg/index_en.html

    [Canada] CANCOPY (Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency).
    URL: http://cancopy.com/

    [Canada] Canadian Intellectual Property Office.
    URL: http://info.ic.gc.ca/ic-data/marketplace/cipo/welcome/welcom_e.html

    [Canada] Chief Information Officer (Government of Canada).
    URL: http://www.cio-dpi.gc.ca/home_e.html

    [Canada] Final SubCommittee Report on Copyright and the Information Highway.
    Canadian Information Highway Advisory Council - May, 1995.
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/cihac007.txt

    [Canada] Gow, Gordon A. Copyright Reform in Canada: Domestic Cultural Policy Objectives and the Challenge of Technological Convergence.
    Communication Studies, University of Calgary. December, 1995.
    URL: http://www.ucalgary.ca/~gagow/cpyrght.htm
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/gowg1.txt

    [Canada] Study on New Media and Copyright. Final Report.
    Prepared for Industry Canada, New Media, Information Technologies Industry Branch. June 30, 1994.
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/nglfinal.txt (197 K)

    [Canada] PATSCAN.
    URL: http://www.library.ubc.ca/patscan/

    [US] Basic U.S. Patent, Copyright and Trademark Information.
    Franklin Pierce Law Center.
    URL: http://www.fplc.edu/TFIELD/ipbasics.htm

    [US] Copyright Act of 1976, as amended.
    URL: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/

    [US] Copyright Basics.
    Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/usbasics.txt

    [US] Copyright Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court (since May 1990).
    URL: http://www.law.cornell.edu/syllabi?copyright

    [US] Institute for Learning Technologies. Comments to the IITF on the Preliminary Report of the Working Group on Intellectual Property.
    August 1994.
    URL: http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/copyright/papers/iltdocs/ILTWGIP.html

    [US] Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure.
    Preliminary Draft (July 1994) of the Report of the Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights, a subgroup of the Information Infrastructure Task Force.
    URL: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/doc/ipnii/
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/intlprop.txt (320 K)

    [US] Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure.
    Report of the Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights. September 1995.
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/ipnii.txt (584 K)

    [US] Library of Congress. Copyright Office.
    URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/

    [US] Proposed Guidelines on Fair Use for the Preservation of Library Materials.
    Prepared for the Use of the Conference on Fair Use of the Working Group on Intellectual Property of the Information Infrastructure Task Force. January 19, 1995.
    Drafted by Robert L. Oakley and Page Miller.
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/preserve.txt

    [US] Title 37 Code of Federal Regulations.
    This is the section detailing claims to copyright, freedom of information, and other relevant legal statutes.
    URL: http://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/regulations/regs.overview.html

    [US] United States Code, Title 17.
    This is a gopher containing the full text of Title 17. The title outlines the scope and uses of copyright.
    URL: gopher://hamilton1.house.gov:70/11d%3A/uscode/title17/sect01

    [US] United States Patent Act, as amended.
    URL: http://www.law.cornell.edu:80/uscode/35/

    [US] U.S. Copyright Documents.
    URL: gopher://wiretap.spies.com/11/Gov/Copyright

    [US] U.S. Copyright Office.
    URL: gopher://marvel.loc.gov/11/copyright

    [US] The U.S. House of Representatives. Internet Law Library. Intellectual property.
    URL: http://law.house.gov/105.htm

    [US] U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
    URL: http://www.uspto.gov/

    [US] U.S. Supreme Court Intellectual Property Decisions.
    URL: http://www.law.cornell.edu/syllabi?copyright+patent+trademark

    [US] Transcript, Public Hearing on Intellectual Property Issues.
    NII Task Force Working Group on Intellectual Property, November 18, 1993.
    URL: http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/copyright/papers/hearing.html

    [US] Washington State University. Copyright Resources. http://www.publications.wsu.edu/copyright/copyright.html


    ASIA-PACIFIC

    [Australia] APRA - Australasian Performing Right Association.
    URL: http://www.apra.com.au/

    [Australia] Australian Copyright Act.
    1968. Updated as at 29 March 1995.
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/ca196813.txt (608 K)

    [Australia] Australian Intellectual Property Law Locus.
    URL: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~pxc/iplocus/index.html

    [Australia] Australian Council of Libraries and Information Services (ACLIS). Copyright for all Australians.
    Submission by ACLIS to the CLRC Review and Simplification of the Copyright Act 1968.
    URL: http://www.nla.gov.au/aclis/clrc.html

    [Australia] National Library of Australia. Submission to the Copyright Law Review Committee on Reference to Review and Simplify the Copyright Act 1968.
    URL: http://www.nla.gov.au/policy/clrc.html

    [Japan] Copyright Law in Japan.
    Japanese text.
    URL: http://www.ntt.co.jp/japan/misc/copyright.html

    EUROPE

    [EU] BT (British Telecom). Response to Green Paper: Copyright and Related Rights in the Information Society.
    URL: http://www.bt.com/regulate/otherresp/europe/copyright/

    [EU] Copyright protection of computer programs in the European Communities/1991.
    URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/copyright/eccomp.txt

    [EU] European Commission. Green Paper: Copyright and Related Rights in the Information Society.
    COM(95)382 Summary.
    URL: http://www.ispo.cec.be/infosoc/legreg/sum382.html

    [EU] European Commission. Legal Advisory Board. The Information Society: copyright and multimedia.
    Luxembourg, 26 April 1995
    URL: http://www2.echo.lu/legal/en/950426/toc.html

    [Norway] The Norwegian Reproduction Rights Organization.
    URL: http://www.kopinor.no/

    [Norway] TONO, The Norwegian Performing Right. Society.
    URL: http://www.tono.no/

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