Copyright

:For copyright issues in relation to Wikipedia itself, see .

External links

• An Alternative Economic System for the Information Era An argument on the inadequacy of the copyright system, and a proposal for an alternative economic system for copyright
• Copywar A proposal to replace the copyright system
• Copyright Curriculum (public wiki of a comprehensive view on copyright for students)
• The End of the Information Age An analysis of the history of Copyright policy and its impact on society
• A brief intro to copyright (by Brad Templeton, with more in-depth links)
• 10 Big Myths about copyright explained
• Responses to the Copyright Crisis - what can be done?
• Thomas Babbington Macaulay on copyright (1841)
• The Free Expression Policy Project report on copyright
• The differences between the length of copyright provided by different countries creates situations where it is legal to publish a work on the Web in one country (e.g., Bulgaria), but illegal to view that Web page in another country (e.g., the United States): http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/nonus.html
• The Origin of Two American Copyright Theories --A Case of the Reception of English Law --, The Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, Vol. 30, No. 3, (Fall 2000, ) by Hideaki Shirata
• Libraries in Today's Digital Age: The Copyright Controversy
• Copyright Background on infoanarchy.org including links to many countries laws, and economics of copyright
• MP3Board.com - News site which aggregates copyright news (and other IP news).
• B. Gates Rants About Software Copyrights - in 1980
• COPYLEFT Software
• FreeCulture.org
• DownHill Battle
• The Design & Artists Copyright Society - A not-for-profit organization founded by artists to protect and promote their copyright.
• Article "The Evolving Common Law Doctrine of Copyright Misuse: A Unified Theory and Its Application to Software" by Brett Frischmann and Dan Moylan
• United States Copyright Office
• The Creative Commons - A not-for-profit organization that offers a free and less restrictive alternative to the Copyright.
• (2002 Duke L. & Tech. Rev. 0023) MUSIC PIRACY AND THE AUDIO HOME RECORDING ACT
• March of the Spiders (by Simon Moores, for the UK Aediles Policy Unit)
• USPTO Stopfakes.gov Small Business Resources
• A flowchart which helps to determine the copyright status of a particular work in the US.