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Richard Stallman's famous parable about the Right to Read, and what will happen if intellectual monopoly laws continue to grow.
www.gnu.org
Intellectual Property Rights Overview
The W3C's take on intellectual property rights in the Information Age.
www.w3.org
A Primer On the Ethics of "Intellectual Property"
This primer provides a general framework for freeing any information covered under copyright and patent laws.
www.ram.org
Brian Martin: Against intellectual property
An Australian university gives a powerful case against "intellectual property" laws. Includes a long bibliography of books supporting the point.
www.uow.edu.au
Mid-Atlantic Infoshop - Against Intellectual Property
A page critical of copyrights, trademarks, and intellectual property.
www.infoshop.org
An essay exploring whether artists, for profit or not, have the right to freely "sample" from an already "created" electronic environment that surrounds them for use in their own work.
www.negativland.com
This group is organized to promote discussion of intellectual property laws worldwide. It is hoped that a network of interested people can come together to begin discussing a future for intellectual property law which balances the needs of people with the needs of intellectual property owners.
groups.yahoo.com
Information Liberation: Against Intellectual Property
A chapter from the book Information Liberation, written by Brian Martin.
danny.oz.au
Free Intellectual Property Exchange (FreeIPX)
A news and discussion site dedicated to critical analysis of the use, abuse, and relevance of IP Law. [Slash-style site]
www.freeipx.org
A PhD student alleges theft of intellectual property.
ca.geocities.com
An impressive list of links to articles concerning intellectual "property" issues, from all sides.
www.negativland.com
An Atlantic Unbound roundtable on the future of intellectual property and copyright law in the digital age
www.theatlantic.com
Intellectual Property Compensation Via Tipping
Article that proposes (with case studies) that tipping may be a viable compensation model for intellectual property (such as music and books).
tipping.selfpromotion.com
An article describing the change in the usage of trademarks, and how it stifles our use of our own language.
www.weeklywire.com
A supplement to the weekly e-zine Library Juice from September, 2000, devoted to the political and philosophical issues of intellectual property, especially as they relate to libraries and the internet.
libr.org