Copyright & Internet Law: Links

Below is a list of links to sites that deal with Internet and Copyright law. If you know of another good Web site devoted to copyright or Internet law, send us the URL for the site and we will consider including it on this page.

• Berkman Center for Internet & Society
  (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/)
• Berkman Center for Internet and Society: Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) Opinion Guide
  (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/udrp/opinion/)
• Center for the Study of the Public Domain
  (http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd)
  Contains a variety of resources, including an excellent comicbook-like primer on some of the leading issues in copyright law called “Bound by Law.”
• Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
  (http://www.chillingeffects.org)
  Purports to help Internet users understand the protections that the First Amendment and intellectual property laws give to online activities. Focuses on cease and desist letters.
• Copyright Society of the USA
  (http://www.csusa.org/face/)
• Corante’s “Copyfight” Blog
  (http://www.corante.com/copyfight/)
• Creative Commons
  (http://www.creativecommons.org)
  Focuses on an alternative to the “all rights reserved” view of copyright.
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
  (http://www.eff.org)
  An online civil liberties organization.
• Legal Information Institute
  (http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/copyright.html)
• Motion Picture Association of America
  (http://www.mpaa.org)
  The trade association of the film and television industry.
• National Arbitration Forum: Domain Name Dispute Proceedings and Decisions
  (http://arb-forum.com/domains/decisions.asp)
• Online Publishers Association
  (http://www.online-publishers.org/)
• PatentlyO Patent Law Blog
  (http://www.patentlyo.com/)
• Public Knowledge
  (http://www.publicknowledge.org)
  Represents the “public interest” in intellectual property policy.
• Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society
  (http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/)
• Stanford Law School: Lawrence Lessig
  (http://www.lessig.org)
• U.S. Copyright Office Online Search System
  (http://www.copyright.gov/records/)
  The U.S. Copyright Office announced that it will launch a new copyright search system in December 2005 that will contain all records since 1978 for monographs, serials, and recorded documents. The “eCO Search” service will encompass some 20 million records for registrations and recorded documents.
• UDRPlaw.net Reference Center
  (http://www.udrplaw.net/referencecenter.htm)
• United States Copyright Office
  (http://www.copyright.gov)