Legal

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Liblicense: Licensing Digital Information

A comprehensive guide to licensing issues that discusses licensing terms; defines licensing vocabulary; provides access to model licenses and publisher licenses; and includes a bibliography, a directory, and other useful resources.

Sections:

Directories and Guides

Australian IP Sites, IP Australia

Compleat World Copyright Website, Compiler Press

Computer Policy & Law: Computer Policy Collection

Copyown, University of Maryland

Copyright & Fair Use, Stanford University Libraries

Copyright and Intellectual Property, ALA

Copyright and Intellectual Property, ARL

Copyright, Intellectual Property Rights, and Licensing Issues, University of California, Berkeley Library

Crash Course in Copyright, University of Texas System

CyberSpace Law Center, FindLaw

E©UP (European Copyright User Platform), EBLIDA

Information Policy: Copyright and Intellectual Property Resources, IFLA

IP Web Links By Topic, Jon Cavicchi and William C. Shaw II

Liblicense: Licensing Digital Information, Yale University Library

Licensingmodels.com,

Mailing Lists

Coalition CNI-Copyright Forum

Liblicense-L List Archives, Yale University Library

News

Internet Law Wire, Jurist

Tech Law Journal

Organizations

ARL Federal Relations and Information Policy

Center for Democracy and Technology

CONFU: The Conference on Fair Use, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Copyright Management Center, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Digital Future Coalition

NESLI (National Electronic Site Licensing Initiative)

The UK Patent Office

United States Copyright Office

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Publications

Cyberspace and Intellectual Property Law Journals, FindLaw

U.S. Laws

Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Digital Millennium Copyright Act: Status & Analysis, ARL

Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act

UCITA: Concerns for Libraries and the Public, ALA

UCITA Online, Carol A. Kunze

Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA), ARL

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography > Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources > Legal

Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. Houston: University of Houston Libraries, 1996-2001.