ESD10 Materials - Block 2

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Intellectual "Property" in the Digital Age

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- AIPLA WWW Home Page
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The American Intellectual Property Law Association WWW page Rate this:

- American Bar Association's IP Law WWW Page
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The American Bar Association's intellectual property WWW page. What the bar association is doing in the area, as well as a gateway to other sites. Rate this:

- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
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Homepage of ASCAP, a key part of music licensing and fee collection. Rate this:

- Association of American Publishers
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Association of American Publishers WWW site. With position papers on copyright, etc. Rate this:

- Campaign for Digital Rights
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Campaign for Digital Rights Homepage; leaders in protests over encrypted music CDs in the UK, as well as copyright law protests. Rate this:

- Center for the Public Domain
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"One of the most urgent but unaknowledged challenges of our time is the preservation of a large and robust public domain." Argues that the balance between markets, technology and law have been upset, challenging "the vitality of artistic creativity, academic research, technological innovation, and our democratic culture." Rate this:

- Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the Criminal Div. of the USDoJ
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www.cybercrime.gov - the homepage of the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) of the Criminal Division of the US Department of Justice Rate this:

- Digital Media Association
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The homepage of the Digital Media Association (DiMA). Rate this:

- DigitalConsumer.Org
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DigitalConsumer.org is trying to restore the balance between citizens and copyright holders. There's an article about them here: DigitalConsumer Takes Up the Fight Against Copyright Plans in Congress by Walter S. Mossberg (March 14, 2002) Rate this:

- DVD Copy Control Association
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The website of the DVD copy control association (DVD CCA). - home of the content scramble system (CSS) Rate this:

- Electronic Privacy Information Center
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"EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values." Rate this:

- Free Information Property Exchange
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freeipx.org - Homepage of the Free Information Property Exchange. A site with news and opinions about intellectual property. Lots of "open" commentary. Rate this:

- Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)
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The homepage will take you to various language versions of the site. The english site describes the area as: "This site contains documents from the process initiated in the 1994 Summit of the Americas to integrate the economies of the Western Hemisphere into a single free tade arrangement." As you might expect, intellectual property legislation reconciliation is a part of this and there's a group to handle it: The Negotiating Group on Intellectual Property Rights Rate this:

- Freedom Fighters of the Digital World
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Los Angeles Times; Scott Harris; January 13, 2002. With a Slashdot commentary: History of the Electronic Frontier Foundation Rate this:

- Future of Music Coalition
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Future of Music Coalition WWW Site Rate this:

- Hague Conference on Private International Law
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The homepage of the Hague Conference - an intergovernmental organization, the purpose of which is "to work for the progressive unification of the rules of private international law" - including intellectual property law Rate this:

- Information Infrastructure Task Force
[1991 hits, 1 votes, Average Rating 1.00] [Added: 24th Sep 2001]
iitf.doc.gov; Information Infrastructure Task Force WWW site - with all their documents cited and available online Rate this:

- International Recording Media Association (IRMA)
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Homepage of the "advocate for all recording media and the industry forum on worldwide trends and innovations." Rate this:

- Internet Digital Rights Management (IDRM)
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Homepage of the IDRM, "an IRTF (Internet Research Task Force) Research Group formed to research issue [sic] and technologies relating to Digital Rights Management (DRM) on the Internet. The IRTF is a sister organization of the Internet engineering Task Force (IETF)." Rate this:

- Loudeye Homepage
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"Loudeye Technologies, Inc. provides services and infrastructure for the authorized delivery of digital content, bridging the gap between content owners and new media consumers." - Will be part of AOL's media delivery solution..... Rate this:

- MP3 Licensing WWW Site
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Home page for info on the licensing of the MP3 format and associated tools - seems to be under development, but should be revised relatively quickly! Rate this:

- MPAA Copy Protection Working Group WWW Site
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MPAA Copy Protection WOrking Group - with presentations, agendas, information. Rate this:

- National Music Publishers Association (NMPA)
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Homepage of the NMPA Rate this:

- OpenDVD.org
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Home page of an organization supporting an open DVD standard; focuses upon the Content Scrambling System and issues surrounding its licensing and use. Rate this:

- Recording Artists Coalition
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This organization is set up to address a number of artist issues with the recording industry, including internet rights, work for hire, payola, the California seven year status and recording contract practices. The list of members is pretty impressive. Rate this:

- SoundExchange
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SoundExchange WWW site - "a dynamic and modern organization conprised of large, medium and small recording companies, united in receiving a fair price for the licensing of their music in a new digital world. ...the SoundExchange licenses, collects and distributes public performance revenue for sound recording copyright holders within such digital channels as cable, satellite and the Internet." Rate this:

- The Berkman Center for Internet & Society
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The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard; lots of interesting resources Rate this:

- The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
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Homepage - "Protecting Rights and Promoting Freedom on the Electronic Frontier - a ton of resources, with their own take on things Rate this:

- The Harry Fox Agency
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The NMPA description of the role of the Harry Fox Agency in music licensing.
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- The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA)
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Homepage; "The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) is a private sector coalition formed in 1984 to represent the U.S. copyright-based industries in bilateral and multilateral efforts to improve international protection of copyrighted materials. IIPA is comprised of seven trade associations, each representing a significant segment of the U.S. copyright community. These member associations represent over 1,900 U.S. companies producing and distributing materials protected by copyright laws throughout the world - all types of computer software including business applications software and entertainment software (such as videogame CDs and cartridges, personal computer CDs and multimedia products); motion pictures, television programs, DVDs and home videocassettes; music, records, CDs, and audiocassettes; and textbooks, tradebooks, reference and professional publications and journals (in both electronic and print media). " Rate this:

- The National Music Publisher's Association (NMPA)
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The home page of the NMPA and the Harry Fox Agency. Rate this:

- The Recoding Industry Association of America
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The homepage of the Recording Industry Assocation of America Rate this:

- The WIPO WWW Page
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The homepage of the World Intellectual Property Organization - with a fabulous online library of contributed texts of intellectual property law from around the world - the Collection of Laws for Electronic Access (CLEA) Rate this:

- UCLA Center for Communication Policy
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UCLA Center for Communication Policy; tracks Internet usage patterns, etc. Rate this:

- US Attorney's Office - Northern District of California
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The home page of the US District Attorney's Office prosecuting Dmitry Sklyarov under the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA Rate this:

- US House Committee on the Judiciary
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Homepage of the House Judiciary Committee. The committee includes a Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property; you can find the testimony and other activity by starting here. Rate this:

- US Senate Judiciary Committee
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Homepage of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, chaired by Orrin Hatch (R-UT) Rate this:

- WWW.Anti-DMCA.org
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A WWW site with a ton of links that build on opposition to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Exhaustive and driven largely by the Sklyarov arrest. Rate this:

- Yale Information Society Project
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Yale Law School - Yale Law School's center for the study of telecommunications, Internet and intellectual property law Rate this: