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The GNU Manifesto - http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html
The last name in software freedom...this outlines the reasons that "Gnu's Not Unix" produces free software. |
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Intellectual Property Issues - http://www.negativland.com/intprop.html
An impressive list of links to articles concerning intellectual "property" issues, from all sides. |
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Intellectual Property Rights Overview - http://www.w3.org/IPR/
The W3C's take on intellectual property rights in the Information Age. |
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The Right to Read - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
Richard Stallman's famous parable about the Right to Read, and what will happen if intellectual monopoly laws continue to grow. |
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A Primer On the Ethics of "Intellectual Property" - http://www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/fmp/copying_primer.html
This primer provides a general framework for freeing any information covered under copyright and patent laws. |
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Negativland - Fair Use - http://www.negativland.com/fairuse.html
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. |
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Roundtable - 98.09 - http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/forum/copyright/intro.htm
An Atlantic Unbound roundtable on the future of intellectual property and copyright law in the digital age |
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bIPlog - http://www.biplog.com/
Weblog on intellectual property issues. |
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A Politics Of Intellectual Property: Environmentalism for the Net? by James Boyle - http://www.law.duke.edu/boylesite/intprop.htm
Paper by James Boyle calling for reduction of intellectual property laws, to be achieved by political machination inspired by the environmental movement. |
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Wired - The Eagle Is Grounded - http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.02/start.html
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. |
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Weaving Webs of Ownership: Intellectual Property in an Information Age - http://www.futures.hawaii.edu/dissertation/TOC2.html
Debora J. Halbert's doctoral dissertation in progress concerning on intellectual property laws in the West. |
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Mid-Atlantic Infoshop - Against Intellectual Property - http://www.infoshop.org/aip.html
A page critical of copyrights, trademarks, and intellectual property. |
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Library Juice Copyright Issue - http://libr.org/Juice/issues/vol3/LJ_3.35.sup.html
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. |
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Brian Martin: Against intellectual property - http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/95psa.html
An Australian university gives a powerful case against "intellectual property" laws. Includes a long bibliography of books supporting the point. |
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Information Liberation: Against Intellectual Property - http://danny.oz.au/free-software/advocacy/against_IP.html
A chapter from the book Information Liberation, written by Brian Martin. |
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Giftfile Project - http://giftfile.org/
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. |
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Invention Development Group - http://www.thepatentguys.com
Offers information on intellectual property agreements, patents, product licensing, and trademarking. |
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University of Toronto Fraud - http://ca.geocities.com/uoftfraud/
A PhD student alleges theft of intellectual property. |
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IP Matters - http://www.derwent.com/ipmatters/
A pro-IP publication devoted to intellectual property matters. Includes features, interviews, research reports and analysis, and IP statistics. |
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IP Future - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ipfuture/
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 needs of intellectual property owners. |
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The Mark is the Beast - http://www.weeklywire.com/ww/07-20-98/boston_feature_1.html
An article describing the change in the usage of trademarks, and how it stifles our use of our own language. |
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The Register - Sneaky Cable Crypto Scheme in the Works - http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/5/15679.html
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. |
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Copyright Law and Independent Creation Theory - http://www.bellsouthpwp.net/m/u/musicedu/case/index.html
Complaining that the law of independent creation allows the theft of music. |
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Intellectual Property at the National Academies - http://search.nap.edu/shelves/ip/
A guide to the Academies' documents and publications on Intellectual Property and a forum to discuss ongoing work. |
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Intellectual Property Compensation Via Tipping - http://tipping.selfpromotion.com/
Article that proposes (with case studies) that tipping may be a viable compensation model for intellectual property (such as music and books). |
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