Copyrights Websites

How the Internet and free software render copyrights useless, dooming them much as capitalism doomed slavery.

A lobbying group formed by typeface designers, targeting copyright protection for the design of fonts in the United States, bringing copyright law in line with other western countries.

Open source pioneer Richard Stallman discusses some problems with copyright restrictions.

With the advent of new media, e-publishing, self-publishing, and differential patent enforcement and pricing - intellectual property rights may be in trouble.

Rabbi Israel Schneider gives his interpretation of Mosaic law and copyright issues.

Transcript of a talk by Richard Stallman, on how copyright law no longer protects the public interest, and how it might be curtailed in different ways for different kinds of works.

Book by Jessica Litman about the collision between expectations of freedom of expression and copyright law.

The old copyright rules apply, and figuring out just how is giving heartburn to lawyers the world over.

Explains how the perpetual copyright policy manifested in the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 has made it impossible to preserve art.

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.

Article on the Canadian government holding public hearings on the Copyright Act reform.

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.

Speech by Gary Shapiro, President of the Consumer Electronics Association, to the Optical Storage Symposium.

Opinion article arguing that copyrights, like physical property rights, should last forever. By Mark Helperin.

A weblog questioning the idea that copyright is necessary for the promotion of creative expression. Has a collection of interesting links.

A very simple but authoritative reference for the history of copyrights back to the 14th Century with references.

Academic paper. General introduction to the subject of copyright ethics.

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. By John Tehranian. [Utah Law Review]