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Organizations and Groups
ASCAP -
American Society of
Composers, Authors and Publishers
Berkman Center - Harvard Law's research program to study the law, the
internet and society
BMI - Broadcast Music Inc.
Center for Democracy & Technology's page on copyright headlines
The Center for Internet
and Society - Stanford Law School's research program
Center for
the Study of the Public Domain - located at Duke Law School
Chilling Effects
- chronicling attempts to use IP laws to stifle free expression
CCLI - Christian Copyright
Licensing International
CVLI - Christian Video
Licensing International
CCC - Copyright Clearance Center
Creative Commons - a group trying to create an alternative to traditional
copyright laws
Digital
Consumer's page on technology news
Electronic Frontier
Foundation - a legal advocacy group fighting "to identify threats to our
basic rights online and to advocate on behalf of free expression in the digital
age"
Electronic Privacy Information
Center - concerned with technology and privacy rights
Foundation for Internet Policy
Research - studies the interaction of technology and society in Europe
Free Expression Policy
Project - focused on censorship and copyright issues, housed at NYU Law
Freeculture - an
international student group dedicated to creating and sharing "open content"
Harry Fox Agency, Inc. -
represents U.S. music publishers
Information Society
Project - Yale Law School's center for studying the Internet and IP law
Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice
Internet Law and Policy
Forum - a corporate business association that seeks to shape laws that
effect the use of technology
IP Justice - an
international civil right organization that promotes "balanced IP law in a
digital world"
IPac - a PAC
dedicated to "preserving individual freedom through balanced intellectual
property policy"
MPAA - Motion Picture
Association of America
National Center for
Technology and Law - George Mason University Law School's center for
studying law and the information economy
The Progress and Freedom
Foundation - "a market-oriented think tank that studies the digital
revolution and its implications for public policy"
Public Knowledge
- an advocacy group "working to defend your rights in the emerging digital
culture"
RIAA - Recording Industry
Association of America
SESAC, Inc. - represent
songwriters and publishers
SIIA - Software &
Information Industry Alliance
Swarthmore Coalition
for the Digital Commons - the student organization that founded
freeculture.org
U.S. Copyright
Office
WIPO - World Intellectual
Property Organization
IP Law Professors
James Boyle - a Duke Law
professor and co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain
Michael Geist - looks
at IP issues in Canadian law
Jessica Litman - a professor at the University of Michigan
Law School
Lawrence Lessig - run
by the Stanford Law Professor of Eldred v. Ashcroft fame
Lenz Blog - from a IP law
professor in Japan
Eugene Volokh -
professor of law at UCLA and blog author
Joseph Liu - IP law professor at Boston College
Mark
Lemley - professor at Stanford focusing on IP law
Law and Technology Blogs
beSpacific -
aggregates law and technology news headlines
The
Blogbook - IP news from around the world
Copyfight - one
of the biggest group IP blogs
Displacement of
Concepts - English IP law and culture news
EFF Deep Links -
the Electronic Frontier Foundation's blog
EFF miniLinks -
quick, bite-sized entries on IP issues provided by the EFF
Freedom To
Tinker - run by a computer science professor at Princeton
Freeculture -
freeculture.org's companion blog
Furd Log - run by a
computer science professor at MIT
Joe Gratz - run by a law
school student from Minnesota, eh
GrepLaw -
concentrates on software
groklaw - focuses on IP
issues with open-source software
INDUCE Act Blog
- everything related to the INDUCE Act and other pending copyright legislation
The Invent Blog -
legal issues relating to inventions and innovation
IPac Blog - the blog
for IPac (see below)
IP News Blog -
esoteric IP news stories from around the world, run by the Franklin Pierce Law
Center
IPTAblog - run by
a law school student from Brooklyn
LawMeme - a
group blog run by Yale Law School students
Likelihood
of Confusion - written by a practicing IP attorney
NerdLaw - "law for nerds at
heart"
Open
Access News - covering the Open Access movement, which seeks to publish
peer-reviewed scholarly work free of most copyright restrictions
The Patentability
Blog - looks at utility, novelty and non-obviousness
Patently-O -
focusing on patent issues
Politech - one of the
oldest sites on law and technology still around
Promote the
Progress - another blog run by a practicing IP attorney
Sivacracy - run
by NYU Culture and Communication professor Siva Vaidhyanathan
TechLawAdvisor - views
from an IP attorney in NYC
The Trademark Blog
- focusing on trademark issues
Weatherall's Law
- IP law and culture in Australia
Other Blogs
ArsTechnica -
technology and software news with some IP law mixed in
BoingBoing - an
esoteric blog that sometimes discusses IP law and culture
PVR Blog - news and reviews
of personal video recorders (like TiVo) with occasional articles about the
effects of copyright on such devices
The Shifted
Librarian - a blog about technology and libraries
Slashdot - community
discussion on anything and everything related to technology
TeleRead - issues
relating to e-books
Copyright and the Arts
Columbia Law Library Music Plagiarism Project - a
repository of information relating to music copyright cases, including samples
of infringing works
Detritus - about making
new creative works from old ones
Illegal Art - a
website that discusses art that infringes copyrights
Passing into
the Public Domain - a chart that shows when works fall into the public
domain