Pages or organizations which debating various issues surrounding copyrights, such as length of coverage, whether the entire copyright concept is valid in the first place, et cetera.
Argument against keeping books under copyright when they should have gone to the Public Domain under the provisions of prior copyright law. From Project Gutenberg. http://www.promo.net/pg/cplea97/
What the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Copyright Term Extension Act mean for the library community, by Arnold P. Lutzker. http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/primer.html
How intellectual property laws stifle popular culture, and violate freedom of speech. About old works being kept in obscurity, and new ones being silenced. Article by Jesse Walker, Reason magazine. http://www.reason.com/0003/fe.jw.copy.html
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. http://typeright.org
Paper by Damian Yerrick about "under the table" laws such as the Bono Act and the DMCA sponsored by corporate lobbyists that dilute the public's right to publish. http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=952746
Investigative documentary by Australia's Radio National about a boycott of scientific journals that will not make their archives available to the public without restrictions or Licenses to Read. Audio in RealMedia format and transcript. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/stories/s345514.htm
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. http://www.iamgonnacopy.com/
"British consumers will be on the wrong side of the law for the first time if they buy overseas DVDs or computer games 'unauthorised' for the UK and play them on their PCs at home." By Drew Cullen. [Register] http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/23814.html
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. http://www.digitalconsumer.org/
"It is important to rediscover the roots of intellectual property to understand why SSSCA is too much, and the DMCA already went too far." Editorial and reader comments. [kuro5hin] http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/3/8/1465/50261
Recent expansion of copyright law threatens research and education, destroys rights, and impoverishes public discourse. [Chronicle of Higher Education] http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i47/47b00701.htm
Article on two U.S. Representatives proposing the Public Domain Enhancement Act, addressing the need to reform copyright laws to permit abandoned works to enter the public domain. http://www.eldred.cc/eablog/000092.html
A proposition to instate tiny tax designed to move unused copyrighted work into the public domain. Frequently asked questions, petition, ways to help, and news. http://www.eldred.cc/
With the advent of new media, e-publishing, self-publishing, and differential patent enforcement and pricing - intellectual property rights may be in trouble. http://samvak.tripod.com/nm047.html
Montreal group of writers filing a lawsuit against publishers who used the freelancers' work on electronic databases and the web without compensation. http://www.axess.com/users/jackr/erdc/frame3.htm
Campaign sponsored by 321 Studios, manufacturer of DVD-copying software, to protect US consumers' fair use rights to make back-up copies of their DVDs. http://www.protectfairuse.org/archive/
