The Right to Read

Richard Stallman's famous parable about the Right to Read, and what will happen if intellectual monopoly laws continue to grow.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

Intellectual Property Rights Overview

The W3C's take on intellectual property rights in the Information Age.
http://www.w3.org/IPR/

A Primer On the Ethics of "Intellectual Property"

This primer provides a general framework for freeing any information covered under copyright and patent laws.
http://www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/fmp/copying_primer.html

Brian Martin: Against intellectual property

An Australian university gives a powerful case against "intellectual property" laws. Includes a long bibliography of books supporting the point.
http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/95psa.html

Mid-Atlantic Infoshop - Against Intellectual Property

A page critical of copyrights, trademarks, and intellectual property.
http://www.infoshop.org/aip.html

Negativland - Fair Use

An essay exploring whether artists, for profit or not, have the right to freely "sample" from an already "created" electronic environment that surrounds them for use in their own work.
http://www.negativland.com/fairuse.html

IP Future

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
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ipfuture/

Information Liberation: Against Intellectual Property

A chapter from the book Information Liberation, written by Brian Martin.
http://danny.oz.au/free-software/advocacy/against_IP.html

Free Intellectual Property Exchange (FreeIPX)

A news and discussion site dedicated to critical analysis of the use, abuse, and relevance of IP Law. [Slash-style site]
http://www.freeipx.org

University of Toronto Fraud

A PhD student alleges theft of intellectual property.
http://ca.geocities.com/uoftfraud/

IP Matters

A pro-IP publication devoted to intellectual property matters. Includes features, interviews, research reports and analysis, and IP statistics.
http://www.derwent.com/ipmatters/

Intellectual Property Issues

An impressive list of links to articles concerning intellectual "property" issues, from all sides.
http://www.negativland.com/intprop.html

Roundtable - 98.09

An Atlantic Unbound roundtable on the future of intellectual property and copyright law in the digital age
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/forum/copyright/intro.htm

Intellectual Property Compensation Via Tipping

Article that proposes (with case studies) that tipping may be a viable compensation model for intellectual property (such as music and books).
http://tipping.selfpromotion.com/

The Mark is the Beast

An article describing the change in the usage of trademarks, and how it stifles our use of our own language.
http://www.weeklywire.com/ww/07-20-98/boston_feature_1.html

Library Juice Copyright Issue

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.
http://libr.org/Juice/issues/vol3/LJ_3.35.sup.html

The GNU Manifesto

The last name in software freedom...this outlines the reasons that "Gnu's Not Unix" produces free software.
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html

Weaving Webs of Ownership: Intellectual Property in an Information Age

Debora J. Halbert's doctoral dissertation in progress concerning on intellectual property laws in the West.
http://www.futures.hawaii.edu/dissertation/TOC2.html

Intellectual Property at the National Academies

A guide to the Academies' documents and publications on Intellectual Property and a forum to discuss ongoing work.
http://search.nap.edu/shelves/ip/

A Politics Of Intellectual Property: Environmentalism for the Net? by James Boyle

Paper by James Boyle calling for reduction of intellectual property laws, to be achieved by political machination inspired by the environmental movement.
http://www.law.duke.edu/boylesite/intprop.htm

The Register - Sneaky Cable Crypto Scheme in the Works

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.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/15679.html

Invention Development Group

Offers information on intellectual property agreements, patents, product licensing, and trademarking.
http://www.thepatentguys.com

Bunop's Intellectual Property Pencil

Irony exposing the limitations of a shrink-wrap license.
http://www.bunop.com

Giftfile Project

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.
http://giftfile.org/

Wired - The Eagle Is Grounded

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.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.02/start.html

bIPlog

Weblog on intellectual property issues.
http://www.biplog.com/

Copyright Law and Independent Creation Theory

Complaining that the law of independent creation allows the theft of music.
http://www.bellsouthpwp.net/m/u/musicedu/case/index.html