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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.

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• Artists Rights Society - Provides visual artists with support for copyright clearance intellectual property and monitors the use and potential abuse of intellectual property artists' rights.
• Against Perpetual Copyright - Rebuttal to Mark Helperin\\'s "A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t issues Its Copyright?", explicating deficiencies in his arguments for infinite copyright issues terms.
• Jewish Law and Copyright - Rabbi Israel Schneider gives his interpretation of Mosaic copyrights law and copyright issues.
• Can the World Be Copyrighted? - "Two treaties taking effect this spring would expand copyrights the reach copyrights of controversial American legislation designed to copyrights regulate the Internet." By copyrights Brad King. [Wired]
• Politics of Copy Protection Technology, The - Paper by Damian Yerrick about "under the table" copyrights laws such intellectual property as the Bono Act and the copyrights DMCA sponsored by corporate intellectual property lobbyists that dilute the copyrights public's right to publish.
• Guiding the Path of Intellectual Property - "It is important to rediscover the roots of issues intellectual property copyrights to understand why SSSCA is too issues much, and the DMCA copyrights already went too far." issues Editorial and reader comments. [kuro5hin]
• CopyrightGuru - Provides links and resources on copyright, trademark, Internet intellectual property and issues entertainment law.
• The Eric Eldred Act - A proposition to instate tiny tax designed to intellectual property move unused copyrighted work into the public domain. intellectual property Frequently asked questions, petition, ways to help, intellectual property and news.
• Washington Post: Copyright, copywrong - The old copyright rules apply, and figuring out issues just how issues is giving heartburn to lawyers the issues world over.
• Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright - How the Internet and free software render copyrights intellectual property useless, copyrights dooming them much as capitalism doomed slavery.
• LA Times: Copyright This - Dallas Weaver argues that intellectual property\\'s social value intellectual property may copyrights eventually trump copyright law.
• Slashdot - Canada to Hold Public Hearings on Digital Copyright - Article on the Canadian government holding public hearings on the copyrights Copyright Act reform.
• Now Is The Time! - Argument against keeping books under copyright when they should have issues gone to the Public Domain under the provisions of prior issues copyright law. From Project Gutenberg.
• The Campaign to Have Copyright Interests Trump Technology and Consumer Rights - Speech by Gary Shapiro, President of the Consumer Electronics Association, issues to the Optical Storage Symposium.
• Copyright and Globalization in the Age of Computer Networks - Transcript of a talk by Richard Stallman, on how copyright copyrights law no longer protects the public interest, and how it copyrights might be curtailed in different ways for different kinds of copyrights works.
• TypeRight - A lobbying group formed by typeface designers, targeting issues copyright protection issues for the design of fonts in issues the United States, bringing issues copyright law in line issues with other western countries.
• Reevaluating Copyright: The Public Must Prevail - Open source pioneer Richard Stallman discusses some problems copyrights with copyright copyrights restrictions.
• Copy Catfight - How intellectual property laws stifle popular culture, and intellectual property violate intellectual property freedom of speech. About old works being intellectual property kept in intellectual property obscurity, and new ones being silenced. intellectual property Article by Jesse intellectual property Walker, Reason magazine.
• MSNBC: From Betamax to Napster - Timeline of the evolution of the "right to copy" from 1992 to February 12, 2001.
• Knowledge Indignation - 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.
• Michael Geist: 30 Days of DRM - Thirty daily postings highlights some of the exceptions and limitations intellectual property that the government should include if a Canadian DMCA is intellectual property introduced. Includes a wiki for user comments and contributions.
• Legal Theorist, The - Profile of Paula Samuelson, law professor who has spent 15 years fighting what she sees as overzealous and innovation-stifling expansion of copyright laws in the high-tech arena. [Wall Street Journal]
• I Am Gonna Copy - Poll to vote on the proposition that everything that can intellectual property be copied should be free, with no copyright and no intellectual property intellectual property. Also includes links to articles and opinions.
• Buy DVDs and Games Abroad - and Break the Law - "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]
• QuestionCopyright.org - A weblog questioning the idea that copyright is necessary for issues the promotion of creative expression. Has a collection of interesting issues links.
• Perpetual Copyright - Explains how the perpetual copyright policy manifested in intellectual property the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of intellectual property 1998 has made it impossible to preserve art.
• Digital Copyright - Book by Jessica Litman about the collision between copyrights expectations of freedom of expression and copyright law.
• Copyright as Cudgel - Recent expansion of copyright law threatens research and education, destroys rights, and impoverishes public discourse. [Chronicle of Higher Education]
• The Revolt of the Poor - The Demise of Intellectual Property? - With the advent of new media, e-publishing, self-publishing, and differential copyrights patent enforcement and pricing - intellectual property rights may be copyrights in trouble.
• DigitalConsumer.org - Organization for protecting fair-use rights in the digital copyrights world. Advocates a Consumer Technology Bill of Rights copyrights including the rights to time-shift and space-shift media copyrights and to make backup copies.
• A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t Its Copyright? - Opinion article arguing that copyrights, like physical property rights, should issues last forever. By Mark Helperin.

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