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    Internet: Copyright and Intellectual Property Issues

    • Against Intellectual Property Articles and Resources on Intellectual
      Property & Copyright
    • Association for Computing Machinery (or USACM)
      This is a fabulous site full of useful information about copyright and intellectual property. This group regularly makes submissions to government, organizes public forums and makes a wide body of public policy information available. Their intellectual property page is a very useful resource.
    • Intellectual Property Rights In Data
      By J. H. Reichman & Pamela Samuelson. Very interesting and comprehensive article on the legal history of intellectual property rights, along with a critical exploration of the appropriateness of emerging copyright laws with respect to electronic databases. The draft of an article that will appear in Vanderbilt Law Review 50 (January 1997)
    • World Intellectual Property Organization's Submission on Databases
      WIPO's submission on The Treaty On Intellectual Property In Respect Of Databases 1996. A useful point of reference for the article by Reichman & Samuelson.
    • Communicationalist Manifesto Nice list of resources concerning copyright, intellectual property and related issues

    • Intellectual Property and the NII

    • Intellectual Property Law Journal

    • Is Information Property? (21k)

    • MTV sues Curry (9k)

    • RFCs

    • Society for Electronic Access

    • Poulton Associates on the Legal and Financial Risks of On-line Communication


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