Copyright Resources

Resources from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Copyright Law Blawgs

Harvard University

Formerly the Chilling Effects Blog. Developed at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society by Berkman Fellow Wendy Seltzer. The blog collects and analyzes legal complaints about online activity, to help Internet users know their rights and understand the law.

American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers; Motion Picture Association of America; Time Warner, Viacom, and other similar organizations.

Ray Dowd, author of the Copyright Litigation Handbook, practicing at Dunnington Bartholow & Miller in New York City.

A not-for-profit digital rights advocacy and legal organization.

Evan Brown, attorney with a focus on intellectual property and technology law, practicing in Chicago at Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP.

James Grimmelman, Associate Professor, New York Law School. Grimmelman studies "how the law governing the creation and use of computer software affects individual freedom and the distribution of wealth and power in society."

Advice and information about copyright and publication from Duke's Scholarly Communications Office.

Information and FAQs about copyright, fair use, public domain, etc. Also see Fairly Used blog.

Society for Scholarly Publishing

Stanford Law School

Global rights broker for print and online content. (6:20 minutes)

TedTalk from Larry Lessig, Harvard professor and founder of Stanford's Center for Internet and Society. (18 minutes)

TedTalk from Margaret Gould Stewart, head of the User Experience Team for YouTube. (5:45 minutes)

Podcasts and online articles about how to stop Internet plagiarism.

Comic book about "the most pressing issues facing law, art, property and an increasingly digital world of remixed culture." Available freely online under a Creative Commons license.