Intellectual Property


General Sites
IP Policy and Law
Industry Affairs and Commentary
Copyright & Patent
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General Sites

IP Newsflash
This website updates hourly and lists the most recent IP related press articles, notices of the patent offices and most important decisions.
EFF Intellectual Property page
Part of the Electronic Frontier Foundation archive.
Free patents online
PDF files of US patents.
IP Toolbar
Links to many IP sites, organized by categories.
Compleat World CopyrightWebsite
Intended as a focus for copyright-related websites and articles on the WWW
World Wide Web link creation, intellectual property, copyrights and trademarks
From Computerworld.
American Committee for Interoperable Systems
ACIS supports policies and principles of intellectual property law that provide a balance between rewards for innovation and the belief that computer systems developed by different vendors must be able to communicate fully with each other.
Institut de Recherce en Propiete Intellectuelle
A portal for intellectual property sites, mostly in French. Part of IRPI.
Protecting Intellectual Property, Lawrence R. Hefter and Robert D. Litowitz, June 12,1995.
A list of definitions related to intellectual property.
James W. Piper & Co. Patent Information Service
Contains list of patent attorneys around the world.
Project OPEN (Online Public Education Network)
Provides information on parental empowerment, intellectual property rights, consumer protection for buying and selling goods online, and user privacy.
Electronic Privacy Information Center
Established in 1994, EPIC focuses public attention on emerging civil liberties issues relating to the National Information Infrastructure.
Links from the AAUP Online Catalog
AAUP, American Association of University Professors, links on electronic publishing.
Copyright resources on the Internet
From Sunsite, UC Berkeley.
Compleat World Copyright Sites
Links to copyright information around the world.
Studio Ubertazzi
Links to Italian materials on intellectual property. (Mostly in Italian)
Association of Reseach Libraries
 
1998 Law and Technology Symposium
 
Character of Information as an Economic Good
By Dr. W. Curtiss Priest. (10/94)
Intellectual Property Rights in an Electronic Environment
A report by the American Association of Universities. (4/94)
Economic Incentives in Software Design
A paper by Hal Varian concerning the trade-off between "ease of learning" and "ease of operation".

Policy and Law

Some papers by Pamela Samuelson, professor at Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems(SIMS) and the School of Law.
" The Copyright Grab",published in Hot Wired.
A list of publications from the Bibliography Server on Database Systems and Logic Programming
Electronic Privacy Information Center
Established in 1994, EPIC focuses public attention on emerging civil liberties issues relating to the National Information Infrastructure.
Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights for Digital Documents
From UC Berkeley Sunsite.
Law Journal Extra Intellectual Property Rights Forum
An open posting list, accessible through the web, discussing a wide variety of intellectual property topics; presented by Commissioner Bruce Lehman.
Ladas & Parry
A commercial law firm providing intellectual property rights information and newsletters.
FindLaw
Legal resources on the Web, maintained by Tim Stanley.
Hieros Gamos
A comprehensive site to the legal profession.
LegalBits
A number of links to law-related material on the Internet.
Lehman report on "Intellectual Property and the NII"
Produced by a working group at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Executive Summary of "Intellectual Property and the NII"
Written for the library and educational community by Arnold P. Lutzker, Fish and Richardson, P.C.
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
A proposal for national digital library.
Buildings, Books, and Bytes
Executive summary of a book published by the Benton Foundation about the disparate views of citizens and librarians about the role of libraries in the information age.

 

Industry Affairs and Commentary

 
Software Publishers Association
The Software Publishers Association is the principal trade association of the desktop software industry, representing the leading publishers as well as many start-up firms in the business, consumer and education markets.
 
Business Software Alliance
Is a trade association whose charter is to advance free and open world trade for legitimate business software by advocating of strong intellectual property protection. Members include Microsoft, Lotus, Autodesk, Novell and Symantec.
 
The Economy of Ideas
An entertaining article by John Perry Barlow from Wired Magazine that describes the basic issues surrounding information goods.
 
Release 1.0
Wired Magazine article describing Esther Dyson's thoughts on intellectual value on the net.
 
The Great Cyberporn Debate
As instigated by Time Magazine.
 
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
WIPO is an intergovernmental organization responsible for the promotion of the protection of intellectual property througout the world.
 
Primer on the Proposed WIPO Treaty on Database Extraction Rights
A discussion of the proposed WIPO treaty by James Love. (10/96)
 
Steal this Article, by Paulina Borsook, Upside Magazine, (3/96).
 
The Great Patent Sellout, by John D. Trudel, UpSide Magazine (11/95).
 
Protecting Intellectual Property, by Diane Wilkins Savage
Editorial Commentary from Red Herring Magazine on the Stac vs Microsoft case. (3/95)
 

Copyright & Patent Information Resources

Copyright and Fair Use
This site is sponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources, FindLaw Internet Legal Resources and the Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources.
Copyright and Universities
A guide to various universities' copyright policies.
CAF Law Archive
Materials having to do with academic freedom, some of which involve intellectual property. Maintained by Computers and Academic Freedom
Software Patent Institute
SPI is dedicated to providing information to the public and assisting the United States Patent and Trademark Office and others by providing technical support in the form of educational and training programs and providing access to information and retr ieval resources concerning software prior art.
EU study on software patents
A whitepaper on the topic.
University of Texas Copyright Management Center
The Copyright Management Center exists to facilitate the research and academic missions of the U. of T. System Component Institutions by providing guidance and information concerning applicable law and the alternatives available to help accomplish educational objectives.
Trade Secret Law
 
The Copyright Website
 
Copyright Clearance Center
A not-for-profit organization providing collective copyright licensing services. We help organizations of all sizes and across all business lines comply with the U.S. copyright law and we ease permissions burdens and consolidate payments for rights holders.
Questel Publishing
They offers a newsletter called "Inside the PTO", which provides up to date information on the Patent and Trademark Office.

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