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Legal information on the subject of copyright law.

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• American Bar Association

  http://www.americanbar.org/groups/intellectual_property_law.html
  Information on Intellectual Property laws. Includes articles on current legislation, tips, and upcoming programs.

• Basic Copyright Concepts For Writers

  http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/sept97/cew2.htm
  Article explaining basic copyright concepts with links, examples, and additional information.

• Berne Convention

  http://www.law.cornell.edu/treaties/berne/overview.html
  International convention for the protection of literary and artistic works.

• Contracts, Copyright and Preemption in a Digital World

  http://law.richmond.edu/jolt/v1i1/hardy.html
  Law journal article by I. Trotter Hardy focusing on copyrights.

• Copyright and Art Issues

  http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~csundt/copyweb/
  Copyright and fair use in the realm of art and our cultural heritage.

• Copyright and Related Rights

  http://www.wipo.int/copyright/en/
  Articles, guidelines, meeting schedules, resources, and press releases.

• Copyright Association of Ireland

  http://www.cai.ie/
  Promotes informed debate and awareness of copyright issues in Ireland and around the world.

• Copyright At MIT

  http://ist.mit.edu/security/copyright
  Information and resources including infringement notification. Features school policies, guidelines, and related links.

• Copyright Information Services

  http://www.copynot.org/
  Overview of laws, rights, and treaties regarding copyrights and intellectual properties. Includes information on registration, fair use, and applications in the recording and publishing industries.

• Fair Use in a Nutshell

  http://copylaw.com/new_articles/fairuse.html
  A 16-step roadmap to copyright's most important exception. By Lloyd J. Jassin, a New York-based publishing attorney.

• GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)

  https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html
  Organization supporting software authors who give up their copyright protections to allow the free distribution of software.

• Illustrated Story of Copyright

  http://www.edwardsamuels.com/illustratedstory/index.htm
  Detailing the history of copyright law.

• Intellectual Property Online

  http://www.eff.org/issues/intellectual-property
  An exhaustive list of annotated links to patent, trademark and copyright information from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

• Interview: Michael Landau on Copyright

  http://www.webreference.com/new/010628.html
  Professor Landau of the Georgia State University College of Law comments on the Supreme Court case of The New York Times v. Tasini.

• Myths About Copyright Explained

  http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
  Answers to common myths about copyright from Brad Templeton, former publisher at ClariNet Communications Corp.,

• National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage

  http://www.ninch.org/programs/exchange.html#cop
  Information sharing initiatives, including copyright town meetings.

• Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900)

  http://www.copyrighthistory.org/
  A digital archive of primary sources on copyright from the Universities of Cambridge and Bournemouth in the UK. Initially focuses on document from Renaissance Italy, France, German-speaking countries, Britain and the United States. Search and browse by date, location, language, and author.

• Public Domain Information Project

  http://www.pdinfo.com/
  Reference site to help the ordinary person identify music and songs in the public domain.

• Publishing Law Center

  http://www.publaw.com/
  Legal information for the publishing community.

• Purpose of Copyright

  http://www.open-spaces.com/article-v2n1-loren.php
  An essay on the state of copyright protections.

• Sentry

  http://www.sentry.org/
  Australian copyright information

• Standford University Libraries: Copyright and Fair Use

  http://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/
  Overview of rights and permissions for websites, academics and educational applications. Includes frequently asked questions, registration, enforcement, public domains, and research.

• Stanford Copyright & Fair Use

  http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
  Information and study aids concerning copyright law.

• The Copyright Website

  http://www.benedict.com/
  Endeavoring to provide real world, practical and relevant copyright information.

• United States Copyright Office

  http://www.copyright.gov/
  Provides and an overview of copyright law, federal laws, regulations and other US government publications. Also provides information about registering a copyrighted document, as well as a searchable database of documents filed with the office.

• What is Copyright Protection?

  http://whatiscopyright.org/
  Information about copyrights in general, and as applied to the internet.

• Yale University

  http://www.library.yale.edu/~okerson/copyproj.html#ucopy
  Annotated copyright policies of selected colleges and universities.

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