copy :: copyright research sources

study areas

Indigenous cultural property

• IPRIA, “Traditional knowledge, genetic resources, folklore and biodiversity pages”
• Caslon Analytics indigenous culture guide
• DCITA, Indigenous cultural and intellectual property
• ABC, Message Stick: Cultural protocol site
• WIPO, Traditional Knowledge pages
• Michael Brown, “Who owns Native Culture: research site”
• European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights
• Terri Janke & Co (See Hot Topics) 
• House of Aboriginality
• WIPO Press Release on classification of TK and business patents (2003)
• Franklin Pierce Law Center: IP & Indigenous Peoples

Australian arts and advocacy

• David Throsby & Virginia Hollister, Don’t give up your day job: an economic study of professional artists in Australia, (Australia Council, 2003)
• DCITA, Report of the Contemporary Visual Arts & Crafts Inquiry: The Myer Report, (Commonwealth of Australia 2002).
• DCITA Checklist for Directors Copyright
• DCITA Performers Rights Discussion paper
• DCITA Photographers Rights
• Arts Law Centre of Australia
• VISCOPY
• SCREENRIGHTS
• NAVA
• Australian Screen Directors Association
• Australian Writers’ Guild
• Australian Society of Authors
• Media & Arts Law Review
• Caslon : Analysphere Background on droit de suite
• Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic works  
• WIPO Performance and Phonographs Treaty
• Screenrights: : The FTA and Copyright Law Changes
• Calson droit de suite guide

Biotechnology

• Consumer Project on Technology : Biotech and gene patents
• Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy
• Centre for Law and Genetics
• St James Ethics Centre: Living Ethics issue on genetics
• Bioethics Web Resources
• Patricia Piccinini
• Franklin Pierce Law Center: IP & Biotechnology links
• Human Genome Project Information
• National Human Genome Research Institute (US)
• NZ Law Foundation Human Genome Project
• IPRIA Developments in Biotechnology
• EU: Monitoring application of Directives on biotechnology
• Arts & Humanities Data Service: Research Centre for IP and IT: Biotech links
• ALRC - Intellectual Property Rights over Genetic Materials and Genetic and Related Technologies
• Patenting Lives
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association: IP
• Joshua Gans, Assessing Australia’s Innovative Capacity (2003)

Competition Policy and IP

• The Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice "Competition and Intellectual Property Law and Policy in the Knowledge-Based Economy." 2002
• FTC Report October 2003 ‘To Promote Innovation: The Proper Balance of Competition and Patent Law and Policy’
• US Anti-Trust Licensing guidelines
• Hilmer Report
• National Competition Policy Agreements
• CLRC, Copyright & Contract Report
• National Competition Council
• Intellectual Property Competition Rev Committee 2000 
• Freehills summary of response to Dawson Report
• ALRC Report: Patents and Human Ingenuity 2004 – see Competition Chapter and licensing recommendations
• AG’s Response to Ergas Report
• Franklin Pierce Law Center: IP & economics
• Franklin Pierce Law Center: EU competition law

IP Commercialisation

• IP Australia: Commercialisation Fact sheet
• IP Commercialisation Projects
• Caslon Analytics eCapital Guide
• Caslon Analytics Innovation Policy

IP Enforcement

• Wikipedia: Warez (see also warez groups)
• The International Intellectual Property Alliance
• International Federation of the Phonographic Industry
• Business Software Alliance
• Business Software Alliance of Australia
• Recording Industry Association of America: Anti piracy
• Motion Picture Association of America: anti piracy
• WIPO IP Enforcement
• Consumer Project on Technology Response to WIPO
• EU Proposal on Enforcement of IPRs
• IP Justice Response to EU Directive
• Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure response
• Caslon Analytics: Piracy
• Caslon Analytics FileSharing, Stealing and Enforcement Chronology
• Wikipedia: Copyright infringement of software
• Software piracy by nation
• Michael Geist, Piercing the peer–to–peer myths: An examination of the Canadian experience
• Indhu Rajagopal with Nis Bojin , Cons in the panopticon: Anti–globalization and cyber–piracy
• Martin Kretschmer, Artist’s earnings and copyright
• Martin Kretschmer: Publications
• Ruth Towse: Publications
• The Music: Music and Money news
• Cracking Down on Copycats: Inquiry into Enforcement of Copyright, Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, 2000
• Advisory Council on IP -ACIP 1999 Report on Enforcement
• Advisory Council on IP -ACIP Trade Mark Enforcement
• OECD Patents and Innovation
• IPRIA: Enforcement projects

Geographical Indications

• Article 22 TRIPS
• WTO Panel Report on GIs
• WIPO, Geographical Indications
• DFAT, Geographical Indications
• DFAT, WTO Disputes re EU GIs
• Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation
• Australian Wine Online- Industry Overview

Australian-USA Free Trade Agreement [FTA]

• DFAT site 
• Text of the Agreement
• Enabling legislation: Patents
• Enabling legislation: Copyright
• Enabling legislation: Geographical indications
• David Richardson, Research Paper No. 14 2003-04 Intellectual property rights and the Australia—US Free Trade Agreement, Economics, Commerce and Industrial Relations Section, 31 May 2004
• USTR Site
• Global Trade Watch site 
• CP Tech site
• Linux site: How it could hurt open source
• Linux Australia Position Paper
• Baker + McKensie Symposium
• US Embassy Resources page

Trade Mark Reform

• Kill Bill: Microsoft's army of lawyers was no match for a kid from Kent State.
• Public Knowledge True Stories
• Illegal Art
• ACIP Review of the enforcement of trade marks
• ACIP Review of the relationship between trade marks and business names, company names and domain names
• IP Australia: Trade Marks
• International Association for  the Protection of Intellectual Property
• International Trade Mark Association
• US Trade Mark Office
• WIPO Protection of Well known marks
• Judicial Protection of IPR in China: Well known marks
• Coalition for Intellectual Property Rights
• ACCC Advertising Guidelines
• EUROPA - Consumer Affairs - Misleading and Comparative Advertising
• Patricia Loughlin Publications
• Rosemary J. Coombe Publications
• US Authors Guild: Trademarks v Free speech
• Trademarks, Free Speech, and ChillingEffects.org

Business Process Patents

• Patently-O-Patent Law Blog
• ACIP Consideration of a position on the patenting of business systems
• WIUPO Computer Software pages
• EPO: Patentability of methods of doing business (2000)
• EU Internal Market Study: Economic Impact of patentability of computer programs (2001)
• EU Patents: Commission proposes rules for inventions using software
• UK Patent Office: Should Patents be Granted for Computer Software or Ways of Doing Business? (2001)
• UK Patent Office: Why is the UK supporting a directive on computer-implemented inventions?
• USPTO Automated Business Method Patents White Paper (2000)
• USPTO Business methods pages
• WIPO Press Release on classification of TK and business patents (2003)
• IPRIA International Developments in Computer programs
• Consumer Project on Technology: Business software patents
• Oxford IP Research Centre "The First Mover Monopoly: A study on patenting business methods in Europe
• Caslon e-business and other patents guide
• Software and Business Process patent resources
• Brain Kahin, First Monday: information process patents in the US and Europe
• Brian Kahin: Sepected Publications

Digital divide

• Caslon Analytics Guide
• Digital Divide Network
• Consumer Project on Technology
• Mark Warschauer Reconceptualizing the Digital Divide
• CLC, “Information Equity”
• Asia Pacific Development Information Program
• WSIS- Canada Monitoring the Digital Divide and Beyond
• Asutralian Fair Trade and Investment Network
• ipjustice
• digitalopportunity channel
• Human Rights in the Digital Age
• WIPO: Access to drugs
• WIPO Economic Development Sector
• ACP Africa ICT Policy monitor
• WSIS ICT for Development

Information Commons/Public Domain

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• anybrowser.org & anybrowser campaign
• Berkman Center for Internet & Society "Copyright Commons" Pages
• Beyondthecommons.org
• CacheNow
• Center for the Public Domain
• Creative Commons
• cryptome.org
• Illegal Art
• Digital Commons Library- Information & Knowledge Pages including papers Presented at "Constituting the Commons: Crafting Sustainable Commons in the New Millenium", the Eighth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, Bloomington, Indiana, USA, May 31-June 4 2000
• Duke University Conference on the Public Domain Duke Law School 9-11 November, 2001
• Future of Music Coalition (FMC)
• How to become a hacker
• Ibiblio at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School
• National Academy of Sciences
• Norman Lear Center at University of Southern California
• nosoftwarepatents.com/
• petition for a software patent free europe
• Public Knowledge - public interest advocacy organisation
• Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
• Commercialization of Human Genomics: Consequences for Science and Humanity, Center for Genome Ethics, Law, and Policy Fall Symposium 2002, Duke University School of Law
• Union for the public domain

Anti copyright generally

• Illegal Art
• NegativWorldWideWebland
• Anti-Copyright
• Anti-Copyright Now! Digital Mayhem by Antonio Mendoza
• Blasphemous Procurement interview with Antonio Mendoza about artist's rights
• UWI anti-copyright statement
• Home Recording Rights Coalition
• Adbusters' Culture Jammer's Headquarters
• Irrational trademark club This site is part of an ongoing art project called 'TM Clubcard - Earn Points When You Surf' which redistributes captured loyalty cards and corporate identities across the internet and rewards visitors with 'points' when they surf selected websites.
• Copyrong Journal
• The Free Network Project Homepage

Open Source

• What is Copyleft?
• What is free software?
• Open Source Initiative
• Open Source Definition
• GNU General Public License
• GNU Manifesto
• Debian
• Red Hat
• O’Reilly network Developer’s Hub
• Open Resources
• Open Source Genomics

Peer to Peer Networks

• Angry Coffee
• EFF Campaign for Audio Visual Freedom
• Freenet
• Gnutella
• Hotline
• O’Reilly Network
• Sight Sound

Privacy

• Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
• Cyber-rights and Cyber-liberties (UK)
• EFA Privacy Page
• EFA Censorship Page
• EFF Privacy page
• Privacy International
• The U.K. CommUnity
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
• Groups Defending Privacy and Freedom
• Liberty Human Rights - Protecting Civil Liberties and Promoting Human Rights. (UK based)
• Reporters Without Frontiers (RSF) - Defending press Freedom around the world. (international)
• Privacy International - A watchdog on surveillance by governments and corporations. (UK based)
• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) - Defending rights to think, speak and share ideas using new technologies. (US based)
• Activism: Privacy
• Privacy Rights.org
• Privacy Activism.org
• Stand: Defining Digital Freedoms in the UK
• Americans for Computer Privacy (ACP)
• Association for Computing Machinery (USACM) Privacy Page
• CDT Guide to Online Privacy
• Crypto Rights.org
• Hacktivismo - Hackers defending privacy and human rights.
• Cult of the Dead Cow
• Privacilla.org
• Roger Clarke’s Homepage
• Graham Greenleaf’s Homepage
• Caslon Analytics Privacy Guides

Encryption and PGP

• EFA Cryptography Page
• Centre for Democaracy & Technology Encyrption Page
• Fred's PGP Page
• DEFCON
• Internet Privacy Coalition
• Phrack
• 2600
• Privacy Pages

Cyberculture

• Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
• Hypermedia Research Centre including copy of the texts "Californian Ideology" & "Cyber-Communism"
• Cyberstudies Web Ring
• CTheory edited by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker
• enculturation© electronic journal, cultural theory and rhetorics
• Alt-X Online Publishing Net
• Critical Art Ensemble including copy of the text "Electronic Disturbance"
• Rheingold Brainstorms including copy of the text "Virtual Community"
• Postmodern Culture
• Jacket Magazine
• Cyberspace and Critical Theory Overview
• hydrapoetics.com

Electronic Art

• ANAT
• SITO 
• V2 Organisation
• thing net
• DIGITARTS
• pHreak
• INA : Imagina
• Siggraph
• Jacket Magazine
• Visual Arts Net
• Hactivist

Music Sharing

• Australian Music Business Portal incl Phil Tripp
• WIRED 11:02 The Civil War inside Sony
• WIRED 11:02 The Race to kill Kazaa
• MPAA - see protecting copyright and creativity
• RIAA Piracy pages http://riaa.com
• Anti-RIAA http://www.boycott-riaa.com/
• DIARIAA http://www.diariaa.com
• Lessig’s Free culture book http://www.free-culture.cc/ - you can download the new book from here.
• Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
• Free Culture
• Public Knowledge: MGM v Grokster pages
• EFF and amicus briefs re Grokster
• Washington Post has filed a story on all the artists behind Peer-to-Peer
• US Consumer Federation news story on P2P
• Consumer Federation paper on benefits of P2P
• Columbia Music Plagiarism Site
• Downhill Battle: music activism

Conference Archives

• Code:International Conference on Collaboration and Ownership in the Digital Economy, Queens College, Cambridge 4 - 6 April 2001
• The O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer and Web Services Conference
• Duke University Conference on the Public Domain Duke Law School 9-11 November, 2001
• Digital Commons Library- Information & Knowledge Pages including papers Presented at "Constituting the Commons: Crafting Sustainable Commons in the New Millenium", the Eighth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, Bloomington, Indiana, USA, May 31-June 4 2000
• Commercialization of Human Genomics: Consequences for Science and Humanity, Center for Genome Ethics, Law, and Policy Fall Symposium 2002, Duke University School of Law
• Copyright & Culture, MIT Nov 6,2002.The first Forum examined Who Owns Research and Teaching? The second in the series looked at Creativity/Markets/Copyright.

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