January 17, 2005

10:45 AM

I'm looking for some good websites on copyright law and issues [MI]
posted by thewittyname to (14 comments total)

I'm looking for both law-centered cites like LawMeme, and also more cultural stuff like what BoingBoing (occasionally) publishes. Any good suggestions?
posted by thewittyname at 10:46 AM on January 17, 2005

The U.S. Copyright Office is a good reference. I particularly like this question.
posted by fandango_matt at 10:53 AM on January 17, 2005

How about Copyfight - I will defer to my law librarian colleagues who should have some excellent suggestions for you :)
posted by MLIS at 10:56 AM on January 17, 2005

While waiting on more, I'll offer up Tech Law Advisor.
posted by ajr at 11:22 AM on January 17, 2005

I read Copyfight and EFFs' Deeplinks who often crosspost each other's stuff. Jenny's Shifted Librarian blog has been talking more and more about DRM stuff lately. The Center for Democracy and Technology has an RSS feed for their headlines, a lot of which is about copyright lately. There's also the LibraryLaw blog, the information commons blog and the Copyright Advisory Network has some good stuff, but they've been battling bad phpnuke troubles over the last few months.
posted by jessamyn at 11:50 AM on January 17, 2005

Jessica Litman's site
Lawrence Lessig's site
Tim Wu's site
Illegal Art
posted by leecifer at 12:10 PM on January 17, 2005

Restoring the Balance is a ReBlog setup by George Hotelling, where he reposts the most interesting bits from a dozen copyright law blogs and sites.
posted by mathowie at 12:10 PM on January 17, 2005

Can't believe nobody's mentioned groklaw yet. Geared towards copyright and licensing as applied to open source software, but should still be a good resource.
posted by cyrusdogstar at 12:20 PM on January 17, 2005

Copyright Website
The Copyright Society of the USA
The Copyright Clearance Center
posted by caddis at 12:25 PM on January 17, 2005

Findlaw - copyright
posted by caddis at 12:42 PM on January 17, 2005

Berkman Center
posted by anathema at 1:52 PM on January 17, 2005

Title 17 of U.S. Code (Copyright Act)

Stanford Copyright & Fair Use Center has all the links you'll ever need, but here are some others:

The Columbia Music Plagiarism Project includes "hundreds of documents (texts, scores, audio and video files) associated with music copyright infringement cases in the United States from 1845 forward." This is very neat.

Chilling Effects Clearinghouse.

iPac is a PAC advocating for copyright/IP law reforms.

The Induce blog discusses potential legislation re:copyright and other IP issues.

Here are some as yet unmentioned blogs: Ernest Miller's The Importance Of..., Current Copyright Readings, Michael Geist (Canadian law prof), Madisonian Theory (Michael Madison). Students blogging about IP issues include: IPTAblog (me), Joe Gratz, Chris Cohen, A Copyfighter's Musings (Derek Slater).
posted by andrewraff at 1:56 PM on January 17, 2005

Copyright crash course
posted by grouse at 3:05 PM on January 17, 2005

Er, if I am going to post a self-link, I should at least post the correct one: IPTAblog.
posted by andrewraff at 1:52 PM on January 18, 2005