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Now Is The Time!
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.
http://www.promo.net/pg/cplea97/
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Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright
How the Internet and free software render copyrights useless, dooming them much as capitalism doomed slavery.
http://old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/anarchism.html
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Copy Catfight
How intellectual property laws stifle popular culture, and violate freedom of speech. About old works being kept in obscurity, and new ones being silenced. Article by Jesse Walker, Reason magazine.
http://www.reason.com/0003/fe.jw.copy.html
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TypeRight
A lobbying group formed by typeface designers, targeting copyright protection for the design of fonts in the United States, bringing copyright law in line with other western countries.
http://typeright.org
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Jewish Law and Copyright
Rabbi Israel Schneider gives his interpretation of Mosaic law and copyright issues.
http://www.jlaw.com/Articles/copyright1.html
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MSNBC: From Betamax to Napster
Timeline of the evolution of the "right to copy" from 1992 to February 12, 2001.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/DigitalMusic/
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Copyright and Globalization in the Age of Computer Networks
Transcript of a talk by Richard Stallman, on how copyright law no longer protects the public interest, and how it might be curtailed in different ways for different kinds of works.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/copyright-and-globalization.html
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Digital Copyright
Book by Jessica Litman about the collision between expectations of freedom of expression and copyright law.
http://www.msen.com/~litman/digital-copyright/
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Artists Rights Society
Provides visual artists with support for copyright clearance and monitors the use and potential abuse of artists' rights.
http://www.arsny.com/
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Politics of Copy Protection Technology, The
Paper by Damian Yerrick about "under the table" laws such as the Bono Act and the DMCA sponsored by corporate lobbyists that dilute the public's right to publish.
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=952746
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