Copyright

 From Lawrence Lessig

You are losing your freedom. See this flash presentation: http://www.lessig.org/freeculture/free.html     (other formats are available at http://www.lessig.org/freeculture/

• A brief history of copyright law
• A list of all renewed 1923 book copyrights.
• A more detailed look at copyrights
• What was the intent of the Constitutional Framers?
• Teresa Ou, From Wheaton v. Peters to Eldred v. Reno: An Originalist Interpretation of the Copyright Clause

References

• OpenContent
• The Delicate Balance Between Copyright and Free Expression from the Free Expression Policy Project
• James H. Johnston, Putting Robert Frost on Ice, Legal Times (Feb. 22, 1999)
• Robert L. Bard & Lewis Kurantzick, COPYRIGHT DURATION: Duration, Term Extension, and the Making of Copyright Policy.
• Steve H. Lee, Open Source Software Licensing. PDF format || PS format

Featured Argument Bibliographies

• First Amendment - Strict Scrutiny

Self-reference

• Slashdot on Openlaw
• Wired News: Open Source in Open Court
• Commons Law
• Von Open Source zu Open Law
• Free is Still Good, LinuxMall

Public Trust Doctrine

• What is public trust doctrine?
• What is the relevance of public trust doctrine to CTEA?
• New Property
• The Internet and the Public Trust
• Constitutional Arguments
• CTEA Purpose
• European Union Directive

Yale moot court hearing of Eldred v. Ashcroft movies

• Travis LeBlanc (Petitioner) [small | medium | large]
• Adam Hickey (Respondent) [small | medium | large]
• Chimene Keitner (Petitioner) [small | medium | large]
• Kimberly Zelnick (Respondent) [small | medium | large]
• The Decision [small | medium | large]

From FSFE

• 2001-04-09: Richard Stallman, Copyright and Globalization in the Age of Computer Networks
• 2000-07-07: Richard Stallman, Copyright versus community in the age of computer networks
• 2000-07-00: Richard Stallman, Copyright versus Community in the Age of Computer Networks
• 2000-00-00: Eben Moglen, Statements on a panel discussion about the DMCA in the USA