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Pages or organizations which debating various issues surrounding copyrights, such as length of coverage or whether the entire copyright concept is valid in the first place.

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A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t Its Copyright?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/opinion/20helprin.html?ex=1337313600&en=3571064d77055f41&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
Opinion article arguing that copyrights, like physical property rights, should last forever. By Mark Helperin.
Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright

http://old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/anarchism.html
How the Internet and free software render copyrights useless, dooming them much as capitalism doomed slavery.
Artists Rights Society

http://www.arsny.com/
Provides visual artists with support for copyright clearance and monitors the use and potential abuse of artists' rights.
Buy DVDs and Games Abroad - and Break the Law

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/01/24/buy_dvds_and_games_abroad/
"British consumers will be on the wrong side of the law for the first time if they buy overseas DVDs or computer games 'unauthorised' for the UK and play them on their PCs at home." By Drew Cullen. [Register]
Copyright and Globalization in the Age of Computer Networks

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/copyright-and-globalization.html
Transcript of a talk by Richard Stallman, on how copyright law no longer protects the public interest, and how it might be curtailed in different ways for different kinds of works.
Digital Copyright

http://www.msen.com/~litman/digital-copyright/
Book by Jessica Litman about the collision between expectations of freedom of expression and copyright law.
DigitalConsumer.org

http://www.digitalconsumer.org/
Organization for protecting fair-use rights in the digital world. Advocates a Consumer Technology Bill of Rights including the rights to time-shift and space-shift media and to make backup copies.
History of Copyright

http://www.historyofcopyright.org/
A very simple but authoritative reference for the history of copyrights back to the 14th Century with references.
I Am Gonna Copy

http://www.iamgonnacopy.com/
Poll to vote on the proposition that everything that can be copied should be free, with no copyright and no intellectual property. Also includes links to articles and opinions.
Infringement Nation: Copyright Reform and the Law/Norm Gap

http://epubs.utah.edu/index.php/ulr/article/viewFile/7/11
Essay on the growing gap between what technology allows us to do and what copyright tells us not to do, and how it turns ordinary people into serial infringers. By John Tehranian. [Utah Law Review]
Intellectual Property and Copyright Ethics

http://web02.gonzaga.edu/faculty/alfino/dossier/Papers/COPYRIGH.htm
Academic paper. General introduction to the subject of copyright ethics.
Jewish Law and Copyright

http://www.jlaw.com/Articles/copyright1.html
Rabbi Israel Schneider gives his interpretation of Mosaic law and copyright issues.
LA Times: Copyright This

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-oew-weaver20feb20-story.html
Dallas Weaver argues that intellectual property's social value may eventually trump copyright law.
Perpetual Copyright

http://everything2.com/?node=sonny+bono+copyright+extension+act
Explains how the perpetual copyright policy manifested in the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 has made it impossible to preserve art.
Politics of Copy Protection Technology, The

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=952746
Paper by Damian Yerrick about "under the table" laws such as the Bono Act and the DMCA sponsored by corporate lobbyists that dilute the public's right to publish.
QuestionCopyright.org

http://www.questioncopyright.org/
A weblog questioning the idea that copyright is necessary for the promotion of creative expression. Has a collection of interesting links.
Reevaluating Copyright: The Public Must Prevail

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/reevaluating-copyright.html
Open source pioneer Richard Stallman discusses some problems with copyright restrictions.
Slashdot - Canada to Hold Public Hearings on Digital Copyright

http://slashdot.org/yro/02/02/19/1916245.shtml
Article on the Canadian government holding public hearings on the Copyright Act reform.
The Campaign to Have Copyright Interests Trump Technology and Consumer Rights

http://www.techlawjournal.com/intelpro/20020917.asp
Speech by Gary Shapiro, President of the Consumer Electronics Association, to the Optical Storage Symposium.
The Revolt of the Poor - The Demise of Intellectual Property?

http://samvak.tripod.com/nm047.html
With the advent of new media, e-publishing, self-publishing, and differential patent enforcement and pricing - intellectual property rights may be in trouble.
TypeRight

http://www.typeright.org/
A lobbying group formed by typeface designers, targeting copyright protection for the design of fonts in the United States, bringing copyright law in line with other western countries.
Washington Post: Copyright, copywrong

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/tech/analysis/copyright/intprop.htm
The old copyright rules apply, and figuring out just how is giving heartburn to lawyers the world over.

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