Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property Links
- John Barlow's Arguments Against Intellectual Property Laws John Barlow, founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a leading internet freedom organization, explains why intellectual monopolies (copyrights and patents) do more harm than good.
- Intellectual Property Myths This document clears up some myths about intellectual property, including copyrights and patents.
- Copyright Protection Is for Dinosaurs fortune.com columnist Stewart Alsop explains why patents, copyrights, and trademarks are outdated and worse than useless.
- Proposal for a Free Unix A proposal from 1993 for a free unix.
- IP Matters A pro-IP publication devoted to intellectual property matters, including patents, trade marks, copyrights and trade secrets. Includes features, interviews, research reports and analysis, IP statistics.
- Brian Martin: Against intellectual property An Australian university gives a powerful case against "intellectual property" laws. Includes a long bibliography of books supporting the point.
- Against Intellectual Property A page comprised primarily of links to information freedom sites, including books, music, and software, from an Anarchy Home Page.
- IP Future 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.
- Intellectual Monopoly Laws versus Real Private Property A web site where the author states that intellectual monopoly laws, including copyrights and patents, hurt everyone, including authors and software producers.
- The Right to Read Richard Stallman's famous parable about the Right to Read, and what will happen if intellectual monopoly laws continue to grow.
- Intellectual Property Rights Overview The W3C's take on intellectual property rights in the Information Age.
- Weaving Webs of Ownership An impressive dissertation (still in the works) on intellectual property laws
- Library Juice Copyright Issue 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.
- A Politics Of Intellectual Property: Environmentalism for the Net? by James Boyle Wordy but well-thought-out article asserting that intellectual property laws need to be reduced, and that this should be accomplished by political machination much like the environmental movement uses.
- The Mark is the Beast An article describing the change in the usage of trademarks, and how it stifles our use of our own language.
- Information Liberation: Against Intellectual Property A chapter from the book Information Liberation, written by Brian Martin.
- Copyright: Guardian of Intellectual Property Guide to computer ethics issues and current news includes an introduction to the problematic copyright issues raised by digital media.
- Negativland - Fair Use 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.
- A Primer On the Ethics of "Intellectual Property" This primer provides a general framework for freeing any information covered under copyright and patent laws.
- Intellectual Property Issues An impressive list of links to articles concerning intellectual "property" issues, from all sides.
- Mid-Atlantic Infoshop - Against Intellectual Property A page critical of copyrights, trademarks, and intellectual property.
- Free Intellectual Property Exchange (FreeIPX) A news and discussion site dedicated to critical analysis of the use, abuse, and relevance of IP Law. [Slash-style site]
- Intellectual Property Compensation Via Tipping Article that proposes (with case studies) that tipping may be a viable compensation model for intellectual property (such as music and books). It works perfectly for waiters, you know.
- Roundtable - 98.09 An Atlantic Unbound roundtable on the future of intellectual property and copyright law in the digital age
- The GNU Manifesto The last name in software freedom...this outlines the reasons that "Gnu's Not Unix" produces free software.
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