Links
Organizations and Groups | IP Law Professors | Law and Technology Blogs | Other Blogs | Copyright and the Arts
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
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