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INTRODUCTION

General copyright info
http://www.benedict.com/info/info.asp

Crash course in copyright
http://www3.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/cprtindx.htm

FRAMING THE DEBATE

A detailed outline of the background to the music industry's litigation against Napster
http://past.thenation.com/issue/000724/0724vaidhyanathan.shtml

The Recording Industry Association of America's campaign against piracy
http://www.riaa.org/Protect-Campaign-1.cfm

Metallica explain their decision to sue Napster
http://www.metallica.com/news/2000/napfaq.html#8.html

Opinion: Why Thomas Jefferson would love Napster
http://www.msnbc.com/news/594462.asp

The Motion Picture Association of America press releases on protecting copyright in the courts
http://www.mpaa.org/Press/

U.S. court finds in favour of DVD hackers in case brought by MPAA
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5099131,00.html?chkpt=zdnnh110201ts

Electronic Frontier Foundation press release on the DVD case
http://www.eff.org/pub/Intellectual_property/DVDCCA_case

Article on the impact of intellectual property on innovation
http://www.prospect.org/print/V11/10/lessig-l.html


ORGANISATIONS & ISSUES

Project focussing on how legal threats are being used to 'chill' free speech on the internet
http://eon.law.harvard.edu/chill/

Information and resources on the doctrine of 'fair use' of copyrighted materials
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/

Research and advocacy centre defending the public interest on the internet
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/

Research institute lobbying for a renewal of the 'commons' in cyberspace
http://www.centerforthepublicdomain.org/home.html

Legal representation for the public interest in cyberspace
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/academics/samuelson/index.html

Innovation law think-tank at New York University
http://www.law.nyu.edu/engelbergcenter/

Group lobbying against software and 'business method' patents
http://www.bustpatents.com/

Information and lobbying resource advancing the interests of music creators and consumers over record labels
http://www.futureofmusic.org/

Manifesto of the free software foundation
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/

PEOPLE

Expert on open source and intellectual property: general counsel to the Free Software Foundation
http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu./

New York University professor: research focuses on copyright and fair use
http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu./

Duke University professor and founder of the Center for the Public Domain
http://james-boyle.com/

Communications professor and author of Copyrights and Copywrongs
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~sv24/

Homepage of Richard Stallman, developer of the GNU software: GNU is free software which everyone is free to copy, redistribute and change
http://www.stallman.org/

FURTHER READING

Lawrence Lessig's new book, The Future of Ideas
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375505784/ref=pd_bxgy_img_2/107-1167057-6170924

Siva Vaidyanathan's book, Copyrights and Copywrongs:
The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity

Digital Copyright, by Jessica Litman
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1573928895/ref=cm_mp_etc/107-1167057-6170924

Praystation hard-drive - joshua davis
http://www.magmabooks.com/content/bookshop/webd.asp