American Association of Law Libraries American Communication Association American Library Association Copyright and Intellectual Property Issues Model Policy Concerning College and University Photocopying for Classroom, Research and library Reserve Use American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Association of American Publishers Statement on Document Delivery Position Paper on Scanning ACM Association for Computing Machinery […]
Copyright Crash Course (U Texas) Copyright Resource Guide (Indiana/Purdue) The Copyright Website from Benedict O’Mahoney Kasunic.com Copyright law and litigation resources from Rob Kasunic. LibraryLaw.com – from Attorney and Librarian Mary Minow A History of Copyright in the U.S. (ARL) ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law ABA Section of Science and Technology American Intellectual Property […]
Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms (1971) International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations GATT 1994 (including the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property) World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty (1996) World Intellectual Property Organization Performances […]
Copyright and controversies over its enforcement by no means limited to the United States. The world’s first copyright legislation was England’s Statute of Anne, enacted in 1710. The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, the first international copyright agreement, was first written in 1886. And while debates over copyright enforcement, length […]
Michael Geist offers us a useful background on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) talks happening now in Mexico in The ACTA Guide, Part One: The Talks To-Date He includes a chronology going back to 2004 on origins of the anti counterfeiting trade agreement. He also provides a summary of the leaked U.S. proposal from last […]
Several years into the DMCA and CTEA, differences of opinion as to their effectiveness and impact are still sharply drawn. The implications for research and dissemination of information are particularly acute in the visual arts as the use of images in printed and electronic media is a major consideration. Two D.C. area lawyers, representatives from […]
