Open Directory - Society: Issues: Intellectual Property
See also: This category in other languages: - Paper by James Boyle calling for reduction of intellectual property laws, to be achieved by political machination inspired by the environmental movement. - This primer provides a general framework for freeing any information covered under copyright and patent laws. - Complaining that the law of independent creation allows the theft of music. - Guide to computer ethics issues and current news includes an introduction to the problematic copyright issues raised by digital media. - 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. - A blog about excess in Canadian and international copyright law, trademarks law and patent law. By Howard Knopf, a jurist practicing Intellectual Property law in Canada. - A news and discussion site dedicated to critical analysis of the use, abuse, and relevance of IP Law. [Slash-style site] - 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. - 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. - Examining, chronicling, and battling the censorship attempts of intellectual property laws. Contains user contributed articles and news feeds. - Weblog covering copyright, patent, trade mark and privacy/confidentiality issues from a mainly UK and European perspective. - A chapter from the book Information Liberation, written by Brian Martin. - Article that proposes (with case studies) that tipping may be a viable compensation model for intellectual property (such as music and books). - The W3C's take on intellectual property rights in the Information Age. - 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. - An Atlantic Unbound roundtable on the future of intellectual property and copyright law in the digital age - Provides legal support to a range of projects designed to clarify, and extend, the boundaries of "fair use" in order to enhance creative freedom. - The last name in software freedom...this outlines the reasons that "Gnu's Not Unix" produces free software. - 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. - Richard Stallman's famous parable about the Right to Read, and what will happen if intellectual monopoly laws continue to grow. - According to the author, owning a song or a piece of writing isn't like owning a television, and to call it anyone's "property" is seriously misleading. (February 21, 2008) - 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. (February 01, 2004) - 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) - An article describing the change in the usage of trademarks, and how it stifles our use of our own language. (July 20, 1998)
