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Bunop's Intellectual Property Pencil
Irony exposing the limitations of a shrink-wrap license.
http://www.bunop.com |
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Mid-Atlantic Infoshop - Against Intellectual Property
A page critical of copyrights, trademarks, and intellectual property.
http://www.infoshop.org/aip.html |
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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 |
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Intellectual Property Rights Overview
The W3C's take on intellectual property rights in the Information Age.
http://www.w3.org/IPR/ |
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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 |
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Proposal for a Free Unix
A proposal from 1993 for a free unix.
http://www.redhat.com/knowledgebase/otherwhitepapers/whitepaper_freeunix.html |
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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/ |
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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/ |
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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/ |
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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 |
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Copyright: Guardian of Intellectual Property
Guide to computer ethics issues and current news includes an introduction to the problematic copyright issues raised by digital media.
http://library.thinkquest.org/26658/cgi-bin/2-1.cgi |
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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 |
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Intellectual Property Issues
An impressive list of links to articles concerning intellectual "property" issues, from all sides.
http://www.negativland.com/intprop.html |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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University of Toronto Fraud
A PhD student alleges theft of intellectual property.
http://ca.geocities.com/uoftfraud/ |
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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 |
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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 |
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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/ |
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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/ |
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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 |
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Invention Development Group
Offers information on intellectual property agreements, patents, product licensing, and trademarking.
http://www.thepatentguys.com |
Additional
Information: Pages or organizations which debating whether some or all "intellectual property" laws are unfair monopoly grants, not real private property like physical things.
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