Intellectual Property, Freedom, and Censorship

• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• IPac: Defending the public interest where culture and technology meet
• Alliance For Digital Progress
• Your Rights Online at Slashdot
• Librarian and Information Science News
• The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure gives us a european point of view
• The Fair Use Network
• The Fair Use Project
• Center for the Study of the Public Domain
• The Free Expression Policy Project
• Against Monopoly
• National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC)

In the News:

• Paul Venezia Open Letter on Net neutrality.
• Rufus Pollock, Cambridge University, has an interesting range of interests including a paper on the optimal length of copyrights.
• This is the paper: Forever Minus a Day? Some Theroy and Empirics of Optimal Copyright
• Blog entry about Optimal copyright term. The answer is 14 years, again.
• A Wired story by Katie Dean about Ipac.
• Economist article about patent reform
• Linux Weekly News article with references to the Committee for Economic Development report on copyright
• A article by Russell McOrmond about who patents should protect
• Prospect Magazine article about Open Source in non-computer areas
• Register article about MS patent enforcement
• FFII: Software Patents in Europe
• Linux Journal editorial about the Media, the Web, and freedom
• An editorial by Matthew Baldwin in the Morning News discussing benifits of copyright expriation to the movie studios
• Open Format Data Format web site
• CNET News.com article about the DVD copying trial
• Infowrold article about software patents in the EU
• Syllabus article about efforts to transfer books to the web.
• Time-Out-NY magazine article about projects to preserve pre-1923 works and the adverse affects of extended copyright on post-1923 works.
• Econlib Russell Roberts interview with Lawrence Lessig about the economics of copyright
• Slate Magazine article about the sales volume of public domain classics
• A Forbes article by Gary L. Reback about the cost, to society, of patents
• An article in Reason Online by Douglas Clement titled: Creation Myths Does innovation require intellectual property rights?
• Embrace file sharing: a Salon article by John Snyder, president of Artist House Records and a board member of the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS)
• Andreas Pour on Open Source Software and IP
• From the Economists: Copyrights - a radical rethink
• An Inforworld interview with John Perry Barlow, the EFF founder
• Do lawyers, strictly enforcing copyright law, hurt business?
• cnet.com interview with Robin Gross about new international IP rights group

Intellectual Property Web Sites

Copyright

• National copyright laws
• Cem Kaner's Software Customer Bill of Rights
• Eric Eldrid Act web site about a bill to restore sanity to the US copyright laws
• Project Gutenberg
• The Public Library of Science
• O'Reilley Open Books Project
• The Creative Commons
• The Digital Consumer
• The Center for Democracy and Technology
• In Europe: Campaign for Digital Rights
• Do lawyers, strictly enforcing copyright law, hurt business?
• cnet.com interview with Robin Gross about new international IP rights group
• Chilling effects from the DMCA
• Copyright for Collage Artists

Patents

• Patents.com - patent search
• Bad Patents
• Public Patent Foundation
• Ross Gittins article: Software's game of mutually assured damage
• End Software Patents web site

Trade Secrets

Trademarks

• Supreme Court Trademark ruling

People with web pages dedicated to Intellectual Property

• COPYFIGHT: the politics of IP
• Brad Templeton

Privacy Issues

• Electronic Privacy Information Center
• Politics and Technology: Politech by Declan McCullagh
• PC World article about government monitoring its citizens
• PBS editorial by Robert X. Cringely about telephone taps and other government surveillance

Intellectual Property Sites promoting Open Source Expression of Ideas

• The Open Source Initiative
• A Free and Open History of Free and Open Source Software
• Open Format Data Format web site
• The Software Freedom Law Center

News Sources

• Freedom to tinker
• Guerrilla News Network
• TeleRead: Advocating Well-Stocked National Digital Libraries

Other IP Related Topics

• The Software Freedom Law Center FOSS Primer: A Legal Issues Primer for Open Source and Free Software Projects
• Radio Frequency Spectrum Policy: Property or Commons?
• World of Ends: What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else.
• Book:

  Economic and Game Theory
  Against Intellectual Monopoly
  by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine
  Online and ready for download.