Pages or organizations which debate whether or not some or all "intellectual property" laws are unfair monopoly grants, not real private property like physical things.
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To promote research and scholarship on the contributions of the public domain to speech, culture, science and innovation. To promote debate about the balance needed in our intellectual property system and to translate academic research into public policy solutions. Duke Law School.
Supports the idea that the term carries a bias since it suggests thinking about copyright, patents and trademarks by analogy with property rights for physical objects and also that it's a catch-all to lump together disparate laws. By Richard Stallman.
A blog about excess in Canadian and international copyright law, trademarks law and patent law. By Howard Knopf, a jurist practicing Intellectual Property law in Canada.
The last name in software freedom...this outlines the reasons that "Gnu's Not Unix" produces free software.
According to the author, owning a song or a piece of writing isn't like owning a television, and to call it anyone's "property" is seriously misleading.
A chapter from the book Information Liberation, written by Brian Martin.
The W3C's take on intellectual property rights in the Information Age.
Weblog covering copyright, patent, trade mark and privacy/confidentiality issues from a mainly UK and European perspective.
This primer provides a general framework for freeing any information covered under copyright and patent laws.
Professor James Boyle's site discussing the balance between intellectual property and the public domain -- including free downloadable versions of his Yale University Press book on the subject.
Richard Stallman's famous parable about the Right to Read, and what will happen if intellectual monopoly laws continue to grow.
Provides legal support to a range of projects designed to clarify, and extend, the boundaries of "fair use" in order to enhance creative freedom.
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.
(February 01, 2004)
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.
(December 22, 2000)
To promote research and scholarship on the contributions of the public domain to speech, culture, science and innovation. To promote debate about the balance needed in our intellectual property system and to translate academic research into public policy solutions. Duke Law School.
According to the author, owning a song or a piece of writing isn't like owning a television, and to call it anyone's "property" is seriously misleading.
Supports the idea that the term carries a bias since it suggests thinking about copyright, patents and trademarks by analogy with property rights for physical objects and also that it's a catch-all to lump together disparate laws. By Richard Stallman.
A blog about excess in Canadian and international copyright law, trademarks law and patent law. By Howard Knopf, a jurist practicing Intellectual Property law in Canada.
Professor James Boyle's site discussing the balance between intellectual property and the public domain -- including free downloadable versions of his Yale University Press book on the subject.
Provides legal support to a range of projects designed to clarify, and extend, the boundaries of "fair use" in order to enhance creative freedom.
Weblog covering copyright, patent, trade mark and privacy/confidentiality issues from a mainly UK and European perspective.
Richard Stallman's famous parable about the Right to Read, and what will happen if intellectual monopoly laws continue to grow.
This primer provides a general framework for freeing any information covered under copyright and patent laws.
The W3C's take on intellectual property rights in the Information Age.
The last name in software freedom...this outlines the reasons that "Gnu's Not Unix" produces free software.
A chapter from the book Information Liberation, written by Brian Martin.
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.
(February 01, 2004)
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.
(December 22, 2000)
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