A listing of web sites and other references
Cyberculture
Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies- Hypermedia Research Centre including copy of the texts “Californian Ideology” & “Cyber-Communism“
- Cyberstudies Web Ring
- CTheoryedited by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker
- enculturation©electronic journal, cultural theory and rhetorics
- Alt-X Online Publishing Net
- Critical Art Ensembleincluding copy of the text “Electronic Disturbance”
- Rheingold Brainstormsincluding copy of the text “Virtual Community”
- Postmodern Culture
- Jacket Magazine
- Cyberspace and Critical Theory Overview
- hydrapoetics.com
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
Electronic Art organisations and sites
- ANAT
- SITO
- V2 Organisation
- thing net
- DIGITARTS
- pHreak
- INA : Imagina
- Siggraph
- Jacket Magazine
- Visual Arts Net
- Hactivist
Encryption and PGP
- EFA Cryptography Page
- Centre for Democaracy & Technology Encyrption Page
- Fred’s PGP Page
- DEFCON
- Internet Privacy Coalition
- Phrack
- 2600
- Privacy Pages
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
Peer to Peer Networks
- Angry Coffee
- EFF Campaign for Audio Visual Freedom
- Freenet
- Gnutella
- Hotline
- O’Reilly Network
- Sight Sound
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
Anti copyright generally
- Illegal Art
- NegativWorldWideWebland
- Anti-Copyright
- Anti-Copyright Now!Digital Mayhem by Antonio Mendoza
- Blasphemous Procurementinterview with Antonio Mendoza about artist’s rights
- UWI anti-copyright statement
- Home Recording Rights Coalition
- Adbusters’ Culture Jammer’s Headquarters
- Irrational trademark clubThis 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
IP Commercialisation
- IP Australia: Commercialisation Fact sheet
- IP Commercialisation Projects
- Caslon Analytics eCapital Guide
- Caslon Analytics Innovation Policy
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
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)
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
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